14 quotes
"People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other."
- Wendell Berry
Awareness
"You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough."
- Wendell Berry
Balance
"We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist."
- Wendell Berry
Creativity
""We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.""
- Wendell Berry
Creativity
"The earth is what we all have in common."
- Wendell Berry
Connection to Earth
"The Earth is what we all have in common."
- Wendell Berry
Connection to Earth
"Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone."
- Wendell Berry
Connection to Earth
"For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
- Wendell Berry
Inner Peace
"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
Inner Peace
"In our hearts your memory lingers, Sweetly tender, fond and true… There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t think of you."
- Wendell Berry
Gratitude
"be joyful though you have considered all the facts."
- Wendell Berry
Joy
"The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly."
- Wendell Berry
Knowledge
"Do unto those downstream as you have those upstream do unto you."
- Wendell Berry
Environment
"We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us."
- Wendell Berry
Environment