We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
WENDELL BERRYIt is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
-
-
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
WENDELL BERRY -
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
WENDELL BERRY -
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WENDELL BERRY -
Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
WENDELL BERRY -
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
WENDELL BERRY -
The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
WENDELL BERRY -
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.
WENDELL BERRY -
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRY -
And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
WENDELL BERRY -
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
WENDELL BERRY -
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
WENDELL BERRY -
It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
WENDELL BERRY -
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
WENDELL BERRY -
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
WENDELL BERRY -
Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
WENDELL BERRY