Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.
Wendell BerryOne of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
Wendell BerryThe connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
Wendell BerryI don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
Wendell Berry