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“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

“Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.”

Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

“The Earth is what we all have in common.”

Wendell Berry

“In solitude, we lose our loneliness.”

Wendell Berry

“We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness "to act alone," its willingness to be everybody's enemy.”

Wendell Berry

Citizenship Papers (2003), A Citizen's Response

“The poem is important, but
not more than the people
whose survival it serves…”

Wendell Berry

In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams.
Poems

“Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.”

Wendell Berry

"Think Little".
A Continuous Harmony (1972)

“Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.”

Wendell Berry

"Healing".
What Are People For? (1990)

“Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in “justice” or in affirmation of “rights” or in defense of “peace” do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.”

Wendell Berry

Citizenship Papers (2003), The Failure of War

“To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.”

Wendell Berry

"The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment" in The Country of Marriage (1973).
Poems

“We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.”

Wendell Berry

"A Poem of Difficult Hope".
What Are People For? (1990)

“The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.”

Wendell Berry

"Imagination in Place".
The Way of Ignorance (2005)

“Sit and be still
until in the time
of no rain you hear
beneath the dry wind's
commotion in the trees
the sound of flowing
water among the rocks,
a stream unheard before,
and you are where
breathing is prayer.”

Wendell Berry

Given (2005), Sabbaths 2001

“When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.”

Wendell Berry

"The Landscaping of Hell : Strip-Mine Morality" (1965).
The Long-Legged House (1969)

“I'm not a Baptist in any formal way. I go to the Baptist church, where my wife plays the piano, on days of bad weather. On days of good weather, I ramble off into the woods somewhere. I am a person who takes the Gospel seriously, but I have had trouble conforming my thoughts to a denomination.”

Wendell Berry

The Brian Lehrer Show (17 October 2013) http://www.wnyc.org/story/wendell-berry/

“Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.”

Wendell Berry

Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

“Small creatures die because
larger creatures are hungry.
How superior to this
human confusion of greed
and creed, blood and fire.”

Wendell Berry

Given (2005), Sabbaths 2001

“What could be more absurd, to begin with, than our attitude of high moral outrage against other nations for manufacturing the selfsame weapons that we manufacture? The difference, as our leaders say, is that we will use these weapons virtuously, whereas our enemies will use them maliciously — a proposition that too readily conforms to a proposition of much less dignity: we will use them in our interest, whereas our enemies will use them in theirs.”

Wendell Berry

Citizenship Papers (2003), The Failure of War

“An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.”

Wendell Berry

"Damage".
What Are People For? (1990)

“Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.”

Wendell Berry

"Think Little".
A Continuous Harmony (1972)