Wendell BerryIt is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. ✨ Wendell Berry (2003). The Art of the Commonplace: The… ▶371Humanity
Wendell BerryIf love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down … ▶372DeathLoveThought
Wendell BerryWe live the given life, and not the planned. ✨ Wendell Berry (2013). This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems, p.150, Counterpoint351Life
Wendell BerryCreation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's hidden Being.… ▶351Life
Wendell BerryI 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. … ▶362Love
Wendell BerryI began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought… ▶363DeathLifeLove
Wendell BerryWhen going back makes sense, you are going ahead.363Reading
Wendell BerryNever forget: We are alive within mysteries. ✨ Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition. Book by Wendell Berry, 2000.352LifeReading
Wendell BerryI took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a little low contented sort of si… ▶374LoveReadingSadness
Wendell BerryIt may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. ✨ Wendell B… ▶363Death
Wendell BerryTo husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and… ▶342Time
Wendell BerryIt would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to … ▶353HumanityLife
Wendell BerryCategorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing with righteousness – as at the… ▶364Philosophy
Wendell BerryOdd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a gar… ▶353PhilosophyThought
Wendell BerryThe earth is what we all have in common. ✨ Wendell Berry (2015). The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, p.97, Counterpoint375Life
Wendell BerryThe paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necess… ▶342Time
Wendell BerryTHE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my s… ▶375LoveTime
Wendell BerryBetter than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ✨ Wendell Berry (2011). Farming: A Hand Book, p.49, Counterpoint Press331Reading
Wendell BerryI believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a … ▶375Life
Wendell BerryWhen you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you see yourself as a young woman, just a big girl really, … ▶353LoveReflection
Wendell BerryOur destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts int… ▶365Time
Wendell BerryThe 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. ✨ Wen… ▶343HumanityLove
Wendell BerryThe world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. Every puddle in the lane is ringed with sipping butterfl… ▶343Time
Wendell BerryBe joyful because it is humanly possible. ✨ Wendell Berry (2012). A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural, p.40, Counterpoint Press321Humanity
Wendell BerryFor any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.354Truth
Wendell BerryThe great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local econ… ▶354Politics
Wendell BerryTo accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sak… ▶311Humanity
Wendell BerryDo unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. ✨ Wendell Berry (2004). Citizenship Papers: Essays, p.157, Counterpoint Press344Politics
Wendell BerryIf we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tre… ▶311Time
Wendell BerrySometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw n… ▶333HopeLoveReading
