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.
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 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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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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 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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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 it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can’t be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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