Wendell Berry Quotes About Simplicity

Quotes about: Simplicity

• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Learning, Garden

• We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, War, Simplicity

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

• So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

  Wendell Berry

  Government, Simplicity, Doe

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

• So friends, every day do something that won't compute.

  Wendell Berry

  Simplicity

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

• 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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