Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Wise
Inspirational
Past
Adding
May
Definition
Reason
Definitions
Better
Escape
Something
Strive
Good
Memories
More quotes by Wendell Berry
We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
Wendell Berry
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
Wendell Berry
A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
Wendell Berry
Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry
Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
Wendell Berry
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
Wendell Berry
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
Wendell Berry
But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.
Wendell Berry
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
Wendell Berry
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
Wendell Berry
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
Wendell Berry
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
Wendell Berry
A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
Wendell Berry
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
Wendell Berry
I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
Wendell Berry
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
Wendell Berry
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
Wendell Berry
I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
Wendell Berry
Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
Wendell Berry
A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
Wendell Berry
