Famous Wendell Berry Thoughts
- THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by… Beating
- The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. Death
- I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one… All
- Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like… Afraid
- 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. The… Beauty
- It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing… Better
- Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of… Always Straining
- I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is… Approved
- We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but… Aware
- From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point… Adapted
- It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. Able
- Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources. Apparently
- I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the… Forethought
- Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you… Amish
- There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it… Belief
- We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it,… Care
- Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for… Agriculture
- The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Birth
- Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer… All
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