There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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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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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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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.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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