Wendell Berry Quotes About Food

Quotes about: Food

• A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

  Wendell Berry

  Food, World, Consciousness

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.326, Counterpoint

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  Wendell Berry

  Food, Cooking, Red Lipstick

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.49, Counterpoint Press

• To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Food

• Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

  Wendell Berry

  Gratitude, Food, Ignorance

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.152, Counterpoint

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