If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
Wendell BerryYoung lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
Wendell BerryThere comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
Wendell BerryIt was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
Wendell BerryTags: conservation preservation
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
Wendell BerryWhat could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
Wendell BerryWant of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?
Wendell BerryBattle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.
Wendell BerryLove is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
Wendell BerryTags: inspirational
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.
Wendell BerryTags: essays-of-wendell-berry
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