Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.
Wendell BerryYou can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
Wendell BerryIโve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people canโt invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasnโt invented by us, and we canโt uninvent it. Weโll need some help with that.
Wendell BerryThe ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
Wendell BerryRural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.
Wendell Berry