Wendell Berry Quotes

Wendell Berry Quotes.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick de

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
Wendell Berry
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
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.
Wendell Berry
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
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
Wendell Berry
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
You can’t know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
Wendell Berry
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
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
Wendell Berry
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry
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.
Wendell Berry
The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
Wendell Berry
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
The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
Wendell Berry
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Wendell Berry

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