Quotes from Wendell Berry

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

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.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.