A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
