It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
WENDELL BERRYI come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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 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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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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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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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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The 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.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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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 care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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