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Wendell Berry - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Complaining category:
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Comprehension category:
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Discovery category:
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Earth category:
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)
Wendell Berry - From the Education category:
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Experience category:
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)
Wendell Berry - From the Grace category:
I come into the presence of still water. / And I feel above me the day-blind stars /
waiting with their light. For a time / I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Growth category:
When going back makes sense, you are going ahead. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Health category:
-The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays...
Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Humour category:
Laugh. / Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Journey category:
It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Joy category:
Be joyful because it is humanly possible. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Language category:
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Love category:
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Miracles category:
We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Muse category:
There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' This is the muse of form. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Mysteries category:
Never forget: We are alive within mysteries. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Politics category:
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Possessions category:
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Possibilities category:
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Prayer category:
...And we pray, not for new / earth or heaven, / but to be quiet / in heart, and in eye clear. / What we need is here. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Questions category:
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Renewal category:
Be like the fox / who makes more tracks than necessary, / some in the wrong direction. / Practice resurrection. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Solitude category:
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)
Wendell Berry - From the Travel category:
There comes... a longing never to travel again except on foot. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Windows category:
And you will have a window in your head. / Not even your future will be a mystery / any more. / Your mind will be punched in a card / and shut away in a little drawer. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Words category:
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Work category:
The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing. (Wendell Berry)
Wendell Berry - From the Work category:
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it. (Wendell Berry)
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