Wendell Berry Quotes

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

Where we are is vital to who we are.

It's so important to know where you are.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

History is not intelligible without geography.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

Without geography you're nowhere.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice.

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.