We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
Wendell BerryThese are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Wendell BerryPerhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
Wendell BerryTo define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
Wendell BerryMen may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
Wendell Berry