Wendell Berry

...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 legitimate hope. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#earth #nature #responsibility #stewardship #art

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#community #freedom #wealth #art

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#equality

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

#creator #god #love #art

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#poetry #dreams

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#inspirational

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#possessed #life

Thinking is the most overrated human activity. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#humor #thought #humor

He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#flight #joy #imagination

The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#home #art