It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRYTo cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.
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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 the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of 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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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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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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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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 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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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 learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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