Quotes by : Wendell Berry

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would....

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world....

Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high salary,....

To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge....

If the white man has inflicted the wound of racism upon black men, the cost has been that he would receive....

A tree forms itself in answerto its place and the light.Explain it how you will, the onlything explainable....

Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties....

No one has madethe art by which one makes the worksof art. Each one who speaks speaksas a convocation.....

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become....