Wendell Berry Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Silence, Needs

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

• Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

  Wendell Berry

  Clouds, Silence, Tree

  Wendell Berry (2013). “This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012”, p.219, Counterpoint

• All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

  Wendell Berry

  Pride, Men, Rivers

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry”, p.29, Counterpoint Press

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