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.
WENDELL BERRYPrayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Annual plants are nature’s emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things 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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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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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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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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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 cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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