Quotes from Wendell Berry
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
- Wendell Berry
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
- Wendell Berry
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
- Wendell Berry
Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.
- Wendell Berry
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
- Wendell Berry
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.
- Wendell Berry
If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
- Wendell Berry
In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
- Wendell Berry
A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
- Wendell Berry
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
- Wendell Berry
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
- Wendell Berry
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
- Wendell Berry