Quote

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

Wendell Berry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Explainable
Explained
Explanation
Changes
Whatever
Something

More quotes by Wendell Berry

Image
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
Wendell Berry
Image
Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
Wendell Berry
Image
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
Wendell Berry
Image
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
Wendell Berry
Image
Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
Wendell Berry
Image
The developed nations had given to the free market the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.
Wendell Berry
Image
Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Wendell Berry
Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
Wendell Berry
Image
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
Image
Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
Wendell Berry
Image
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.
Wendell Berry
Image
Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
Wendell Berry
Image
It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
Wendell Berry
Image
To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
Wendell Berry
Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
Wendell Berry
Image
If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
Wendell Berry
Image
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
Image
At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.
Wendell Berry
Image
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
Image
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
Wendell Berry