We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it. Wendell Berry Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess. Wendell Berry Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry Read Quote
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? Wendell Berry Read Quote
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. Wendell Berry Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. Wendell Berry Read Quote