Anxiety Quote by Wendell Berry

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

— Wendell Berry