You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
Wendell BerryYou mustnโt wish for another life. You mustnโt want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: โRejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.โ I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
Wendell BerryCommunity, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.
Wendell BerryObviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their organizations, are going to have to interest themselves in economy-which is to say, in nature and in work. They are going to have to give workable answers to those who say we cannot live without this economy that is destroying us and our world, who see the murder of Creation as the only way of life.
Wendell Berry