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I don’t believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I don’t think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go (Wendell Berry Quotes)
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey (Wendell Berry Quotes)
If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too (Wendell Berry Quotes)
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world (Wendell Berry Quotes)
You don’t need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man’s silence and the set of his head than by what he says (Wendell Berry Quotes)
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense (Wendell Berry Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life (Wendell Berry Quotes)
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it’s being ruined is hard (Wendell Berry Quotes)
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass (Wendell Berry Quotes)
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food (Wendell Berry Quotes)
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either (Wendell Berry Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it (Wendell Berry Quotes)
Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources (Wendell Berry Quotes)
If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree (Wendell Berry Quotes)
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk (Wendell Berry Quotes)
If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long (Wendell Berry Quotes)
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists (Wendell Berry Quotes)
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough (Wendell Berry Quotes)
There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands (Wendell Berry Quotes)
There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it (Wendell Berry Quotes)
A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life (Wendell Berry Quotes)
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes (Wendell Berry Quotes)
It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons (Wendell Berry Quotes)
We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land (Wendell Berry Quotes)
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods (Wendell Berry Quotes)