The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
WENDELL BERRYI was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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