Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Wendell Berry More Quotes by Wendell Berry More Quotes From Wendell Berry I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness Wendell Berry clevernessmothermen 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 live-your-lifedreamlove-you If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too. Wendell Berry our-livesifs If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent. Wendell Berry painacceptancetime Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. Wendell Berry peopleworld The language that reveals also obscures. Wendell Berry language It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born. Wendell Berry bornjesus Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias. Wendell Berry asksplantanswers A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce. Wendell Berry gardenpracticehome We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods. Wendell Berry together-againgovernmentresponsibility A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us. Wendell Berry gardenpracticehome It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry Eating is an agricultural act. Wendell Berry agricultureenvironmenteating 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 wisdominspirationallife There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives. Wendell Berry datadifferenceslife Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons. Wendell Berry best-thingssermons Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice. Wendell Berry voicelandpeople To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain. Wendell Berry bargainscost You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough Wendell Berry affirmationenvironmentalrivers How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored. Wendell Berry riskdifferenceswar
