Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image ““The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.”” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged.… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
“...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“He found that there were still beautiful things in the world, and nothing could ever change that.” — Amy Zhang Copy Share Image
“I became convinced that to survive I would have to remake the world so that it came closer to matching its own ideals.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The world seemed somehow different when one was lying down. Darker, more dangerous ... And in that moment, as he slowly closed the distance… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“She watched the coals grow cooler and wondered if worlds grew cool as well. If existence faded like heat.” — Owen Egerton 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
