The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Wendell Berry More Quotes by Wendell Berry More Quotes From Wendell Berry The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner. Wendell Berry learners wanted teacher I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness Wendell Berry cleverness mother men 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-life dream love-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-lives ifs 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 pain acceptance time Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. Wendell Berry people world The language that reveals also obscures. Wendell Berry language It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born. Wendell Berry born jesus Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias. Wendell Berry asks plant answers 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 garden practice home 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-again government responsibility 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 garden practice home It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry Eating is an agricultural act. Wendell Berry agriculture environment eating 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 wisdom inspirational life 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 data differences life Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons. Wendell Berry best-things sermons Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice. Wendell Berry voice land people To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain. Wendell Berry bargains cost You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough Wendell Berry affirmation environmental rivers
