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.
WENDELL BERRYWe cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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 is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about 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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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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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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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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