Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image ““The river's injury is its shape.”” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Everyone sees the violence of the swollen river. Few see the violence of the embankments that constrain it.” — Ancient Chinese Proverb Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I float along the river For its surface I am bound And there are times stones done fill my pockets And it's into… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
“The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it… — Robert Michael Pyle Copy Share Image
“The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same. The foam that floats in the pools Now gathering, now… — Kamo no Chōmei 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
