I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
WENDELL BERRYWe learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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.
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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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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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