Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. -Wendell Berry Food
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. -Wendell Berry Death
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. -Wendell Berry Nature
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. -Wendell Berry God
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 Peace
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. -Wendell Berry Truth
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 History
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. -Wendell Berry Medical
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. -Wendell Berry Technology
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. -Wendell Berry Nature
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? -Wendell Berry Gardening
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. -Wendell Berry Good
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 hope. -Wendell Berry Hope
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? -Wendell Berry Time
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. -Wendell Berry Hope
