Quotes by Wendell Berry

Explore a curated collection of 48 quotes by Wendell Berry. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

What I stand for is what I stand on. — Wendell Berry
The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. — Wendell Berry
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 escap — Wendell Berry
As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have mad — Wendell Berry
From the union of power and money,from the union of power and secrecy,from the union of government and science,from the — Wendell Berry
There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of — Wendell Berry
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. — Wendell Berry
We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our countr — Wendell Berry
No one has madethe art by which one makes the worksof art. Each one who speaks speaksas a convocation. We live as counci — Wendell Berry
Thinking is the most overrated human activity. — Wendell Berry
The significance - and ultimately the quality - of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in whi — Wendell Berry
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, — Wendell Berry
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on — Wendell Berry
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately repre — Wendell Berry
There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for — Wendell Berry
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. — Wendell Berry
No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small — Wendell Berry
He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. — Wendell Berry
She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. — Wendell Berry
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. — Wendell Berry