We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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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It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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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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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places.
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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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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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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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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