During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And having thoughtlessly polluted our streams and rivers, we have seen in recent years a rapidly growing market for bottled drinking water.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of… — 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
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
