Best Wendell Berry Thoughts
- You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction Commit
- Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious… Both
- Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and… Becomes
- To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us… Accept
- To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry… Agriculture
- The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed Baffled
- We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of… All
- Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. Broken
- A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people. Agriculture
- We live the given life, and not the planned. Given
- I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness Cleverness
- A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs… Assumption
- A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his… Economy
- To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that… Affection
- If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are. Inspirational
- Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily… Bread
- The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making Choosing
- All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today. All
- But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way… Cutting
- Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all… All
- I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy… Burning
- All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have… All
- Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to… Crop
- Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous. Action
- Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us. Future
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