The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
Wendell BerryYou don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
Wendell BerryThis is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
Wendell BerryHow do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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 Berry... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.
Wendell Berry