Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRYThis, 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.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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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 any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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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 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 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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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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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