Wendell Berry Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.”

“We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.”

“We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.”

“Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.”

“If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.”

“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.”

“It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.”

“I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.”

“There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.”

“The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.”