Quotes from Wendell Berry
This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.
- Wendell Berry
Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.
- Wendell Berry
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
- Wendell Berry
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
- Wendell Berry
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
- Wendell Berry
A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation." Sabbaths 1999 IV
- Wendell Berry
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.
- Wendell Berry
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.
- Wendell Berry
It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
- Wendell Berry
To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
- Wendell Berry
To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
- Wendell Berry
Love changes, and in change is true.
- Wendell Berry