Wendell Berry Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Believe, Redemption

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.146, Counterpoint

• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Grief, Generosity

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

• Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Alive, Never Forget

  "Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition". Book by Wendell Berry, 2000.

• There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Data, Differences

• My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Positive, Passion

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.75, Counterpoint

• It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.97, Counterpoint Press

• If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Death, Long

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.70, Counterpoint

• Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Humble, Ambition

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.90, Counterpoint Press

• We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, People, Needs

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

• To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Giving Up, Miracle

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

• The world is whole beyond human knowing.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Knowing, World

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.80, The Golden Sufi Center

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