Best Wendell Berry Words
- Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias. Answers
- The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of… Alignment
- The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. Affection
- It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born. Born
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. Alone
- In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world. Enters
- Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,… Ask
- It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. Analogies
- We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner… All
- A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good… Community
- One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss. Amiss
- How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing. Radical
- To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it. Give
- For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Free
- We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy. Economy
- An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating Agrarian
- We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's… Ask
- Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no… Act
- Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our… Abundance
- Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to… Abstract
- Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and… Alert
- You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well… Anybody
- We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future… Available
- Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to… American
- Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It… Assigned
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