If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
Wendell BerryYoung lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
Wendell BerryA person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
Wendell BerryWaking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
Wendell BerryReverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
Wendell BerryIf you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
Wendell Berry