Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image “Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream. — Donald Keough Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
