We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRYI’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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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.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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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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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 come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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