Wendell Berry Quotes

I am two with nature.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

Family, nature and health all go together.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone. We don’t think about it often, but everything is connected, and we need to restore our connections to a healthy state. Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

I do look at that thematic of healing of humanity.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

You are the world and the world is you.

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.