Wendell Berry

“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”

“Eating is an agricultural act.”

“To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.”

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”

“The Earth is what we all have in common.”

“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us.”

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”

“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.”

“If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.”

“The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.”

“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life.”

“When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.”

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives.”

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness.”

“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”

“So, friends, every day do something that won't compute.”

“What I stand for is what I stand on.”

“We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: how much is enough?”