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The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction.
— Wendell Berry
The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
— Wendell Berry
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings. - Wendell Berry
— Barbara Brown Taylor
He loved the woods, where it seemed to him that every life was secret, including his own.
— Wendell Berry
Eating is an agricultural act.
— Wendell Berry
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
— Wendell Berry
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
— Wendell Berry
The way of education leads away from home. That is what we learned from our children's education.
— Wendell Berry
A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
— Wendell Berry
But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave.
— Wendell Berry
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
— Wendell Berry
In solitude, we lose our loneliness.
— Wendell Berry
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
— Wendell Berry
What we need is here. - Wendell Berry
— Diana Butler Bass
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
— Wendell Berry
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
— Wendell Berry
Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.
— Wendell Berry
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
— Wendell Berry
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
— Wendell Berry
Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
— Wendell Berry
Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
— Wendell Berry
Long live gravity! Long livestupidity, error, and greed in the palaces
of fantasy capitalism! — Wendell Berry
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
— Wendell Berry
It's the impeded stream that sings
— Wendell Berry
When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
— Wendell Berry
I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
— Wendell Berry
We are alive within mystery, by miracle ... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
— Wendell Berry
When the mind's an empty room The clear days come. — Wendell Berry
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
— Wendell Berry
But a man with a machine and inadequate culture - such as I was when I made my pond - is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
— Wendell Berry
A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
— Wendell Berry
Sometimes I fall back pretty hard on the butterflies and the flowers. What a privilege to have been around for this.
— Wendell Berry
All good human work remembers its history.
— Wendell Berry
The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
— Wendell Berry
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
— Wendell Berry
He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.
— Wendell Berry
Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
— Wendell Berry
There's nothing under the ground that's worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
— Wendell Berry
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
— Wendell Berry
Invest in the millenium.
— Wendell Berry
Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
— Wendell Berry
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
— Wendell Berry
And we pray, not for newearth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here. — Wendell Berry
You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
— 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
We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
— Wendell Berry
Why I am NOT going to buy a computer
— Wendell Berry
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
— Wendell Berry
A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
— Wendell Berry
Oh Lord, make us ableTo eat all that's on this table,
And if there's some we haven't got
Bring it to us while it's hot — Wendell Berry
Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land
— Wendell Berry
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
— Wendell Berry
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
— Wendell Berry
Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
— Wendell Berry
To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
— Wendell Berry
Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.
— Wendell Berry
The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
— Wendell Berry
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
— Wendell Berry
We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
— Wendell Berry
Ths visions of the mind have a debt to reality that it is hard to get the mind to pay when it is under the influence of its visions.
— Wendell Berry
The world had become pretty generally Ceceliafied.
— Wendell Berry
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
— Wendell Berry
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
— Wendell Berry
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
— Wendell Berry
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
— Wendell Berry
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead.
— Wendell Berry
The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)
— Wendell Berry
If the devil doesn't exist ... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
— Wendell Berry
If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
— Wendell Berry
We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
— Wendell Berry
There comes ... a longing never to travel again except on foot.
— Wendell Berry
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
— Wendell Berry
There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.
— Wendell Berry
The river's injury is its shape.
— Wendell Berry
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
— Wendell Berry
I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to learn.
— Wendell Berry
