Wendell Berry Quotes

The earth is what we all have in common.

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding.

The Amish question "What will this do to our community?" tends toward the right answer for the world.

I think it is a rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.

The people of wealth and power do not know what it means to take a place seriously: to think it worthy of love and study and careful work.

Respect, I think, always implies imagination-- the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark.

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

Love someone who does not deserve it.

- Wendell Berry