I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
WENDELL BERRYThe atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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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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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’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief…
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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 prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
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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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