Wendell Berry Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Wendell Berry on Wise Famous Quotes.
The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction.
Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred,
The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.
Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.
Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
Be thankful and repay Growth with good work and care. Work done in gratitude Kindly, and well, is prayer.
I had reached a level of sophistication at which I could know I was fooling myself and still fool myself.
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
It's sad that we live in a society that has the refrain 'thank God it's Friday, that means you despise 5/7ths of your life.
Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one.
The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)
If the devil doesn't exist ... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.
The promoters of the global economy ... see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
There's nothing under the ground that's worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.
To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead.
For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
As much as any of the old-timers, he regarded the Depression as not over and done with but merely absent for a while, like Halley's comet.
A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Oh Lord, make us able
To eat all that's on this table,
And if there's some we haven't got
Bring it to us while it's hot
To eat all that's on this table,
And if there's some we haven't got
Bring it to us while it's hot