Quotes About Wendell Berry

I always turn to Wendell Berry for inspiration on food, community, agriculture, and, well, just being a human.

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

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 warned, "To attribute to the Muse a special fondness for pain is to come too close to desiring and cultivating pain.

Tradition-minded Christians who have immersed themselves in the writings of Wendell Berry should understand that agrarianism is no panacea. "You can't make a living as a farmer, but you can make a living as a die-setter," says MacDonald. "Industrialism is the new agrarianism. It's not back to the land, but back to the trades.

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.

This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.

We are all to some extent the products of an exploitive society, and it would be foolish and self-defeating to pretend that we do not bear its stamp.

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind.

Aunt Beulah could hear the dust moats collide in a sunbeam.

I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles.

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as a person.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

As I look back over my work of several decades, I can see that the back-and-forth of my thoughts has hardly been graceful, as it is hardly graceful in these present pages. It will probably have to be seen as a struggle to find or recover the language necessary to speak, in the same breath, of work and love.

In putting them on, he forgot about them and began, without the slightest malice toward them, to subject them to various forms of abuse.

the American Indian, who was ignorant by the same standards, nevertheless knew how to live in the country without making violence the invariable mode of his relation to it; in fact, from the ecologist's or the conservationist's point of view, he did it no violence. This is because he had, in place of what we would call education, a fully integrated culture, the content of which was a highly complex sense of his dependence on the earth.

A lamplit table spread Old hospitality Of cheese and wine and bread. - 1993 V Remembering Evia

The singular demand for production has been unable to acknowledge the importance of the sources of production in nature and in human culture.