Wendell Berry Zitate

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“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”

“It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

“Be joyful because it is humanly possible.”

“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”

“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

“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.”

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”

“I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.”

“What I stand for
is what I stand on.”

“… And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here.”

“Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call “the economy” or “the free market” is less and less distinguishable from warfare.”

“The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.”

“There comes… a longing never to travel again except on foot.”

“Eating is an agricultural act.”

“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”

“If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.”

“I have always loved a window, especially an open one.”

“… 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 legitimate hope.”

“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”

“When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.”

“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.”

“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”

“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”

“Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.”

“It is to be broken. It is to be
torn open. It is not to be
reached and come to rest in
ever. I turn against you,
I break from you, I turn to you.
We hurt, and are hurt,
and have each other for healing.
It is healing. It is never whole.”

“The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.”

“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.”