Best Wendell Berry Lines
- In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value… Burden
- Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God?… Allowed
- We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging… Abhor
- ... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community… Citizens
- The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children. Borrowed
- It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Better
- Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass. Dirt
- Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable. Changes
- To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial. Emergencies
- We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you… Airline
- A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common. Cherish
- A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith,… Anonymously
- It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the… Agribusiness
- At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings… Accomplishment
- The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food. Believe
- I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and… Blooming
- Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear /… Abandon
- The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. All
- We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. Artist
- You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land. Apart
- If you eat, you are involved in agriculture. Agriculture
- Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is… Attainable
- True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly… Audible
- There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again… Begun
- The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field… Air
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