For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
WENDELL BERRYFor a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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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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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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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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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