Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
Wendell BerryThe primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
Wendell BerryThe presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
Wendell BerryIn order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
Wendell Berry