After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
Wendell BerryIf the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
Wendell BerryWe will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
Wendell BerryIf you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.
Wendell Berry