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 BERRYThe 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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