We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
WENDELL BERRYThe uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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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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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 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 come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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 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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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.
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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.
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