The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Wendell Berry Read Quote
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. Wendell Berry Read Quote
Whether we or 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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. Wendell Berry Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
