Wendell Berry

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#art

The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer...the quiet in the woods of a summer morning, the voice of a pewee passing through it like a tight silver wire; ... ↗

— Wendell Berry

#inspirational

I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#life #change

the inlet our friend looks as he did when we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die of grief, for I know that this boy grew into a man who was a faithful friend who died. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#memory #poetry #faith

No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#racism #freedom

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#day #devotion #every #every day #justice

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#always #care #going #good #lacking

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#back #concerns #directly #eat #fairly

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#cherish #earth #foster #hope #legitimate

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #interest #lots #positive #reasons