Wendell Berry Quotes

Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.

Imperfection is perfection.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

Let us respect others no one lives alone in a city, a nation, or a world.

My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

You are the world and the world is you.

We are not born for ourselves alone.

Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

The world is bigger than all the parts. That's the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You'll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn't do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Art matters because it is the one true great connector in a world that seems to be very unconnected.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.