Wendell Berry

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs…

— Wendell Berry

“How to be a Poet (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend…

— Wendell Berry

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice.…

— Wendell Berry

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other…

— Wendell Berry

“We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood…

— Wendell Berry

“The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)”

— Wendell Berry

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

— Wendell Berry

“...we begin to understand marriage as the insistently practical union that it is. We begin to understand it, that is, as it…

— Wendell Berry

“The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain’t in who is a member…

— Wendell Berry

“The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones forsaken. The…

— Wendell Berry

“By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled…

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“[O]ne can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.”

— Wendell Berry

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

— Wendell Berry

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes…

— Wendell Berry

“All good human work remembers its history.”

— Wendell Berry

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse…

— Wendell Berry

But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the…

— Wendell Berry

“Jesus' military career has never compelled my belief.”

— Wendell Berry

“The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance - almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world…

— Wendell Berry

However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem…

— Wendell Berry

“He had nothing he could do with is life's work now except leave it to a man who thought nothing of it.”

— Wendell Berry

“Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social weapon in the hands of the…

— Wendell Berry

To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in…

— Wendell Berry

“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not…

— Wendell Berry

[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that…

— Wendell Berry