Home » Wendell Berry Wendell Berry Wendell Berry 1 For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless. Wendell Berry Suffering, Why, Sin Add to Collection 2 If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: 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. Wendell Berry Life, Deep, Myself Add to Collection 3 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. Wendell Berry Home, Plants, Country Add to Collection 4 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. Wendell Berry Trying, May, Things Add to Collection 5 The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. Wendell Berry Time, Power, Plant Add to Collection 6 Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest. Wendell Berry Money, Problems, Agriculture Add to Collection 7 I'm a writer more than I am a talker. Wendell Berry Self Confidence, More, Writer Add to Collection 8 If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. Wendell Berry Nature, Responsibility Add to Collection 9 Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. Wendell Berry Nature, Justice, Memory Add to Collection 10 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. Wendell Berry Nature, Day, Shadow Add to Collection 11 There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts. Wendell Berry Life, World, Belief Add to Collection 12 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. Wendell Berry Death, War, Know Add to Collection 13 We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? Wendell Berry Time, Gardening, Learn Add to Collection 14 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. Wendell Berry Daily, Death, Breakfast Add to Collection 15 Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. Wendell Berry Food, Farming, May Add to Collection 16 Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. Wendell Berry Nature, Service, Medical Add to Collection 17 The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. Wendell Berry Good, Care, Affection Add to Collection 18 I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved. Wendell Berry Life, Good, Good Life Add to Collection 19 These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more. Wendell Berry Day, Justice, People Add to Collection 20 Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. Wendell Berry Red, Better, Dawn Add to Collection 21 The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. Wendell Berry Hope, Responsibility, Care Add to Collection 22 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. Wendell Berry Life, Day, Best Add to Collection 23 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 Berry Best, Walk, Help Add to Collection 24 To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. Wendell Berry Food, Production, Clearly Add to Collection 1 2 next › last »
