Wendell Berry

"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."

"Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism."

"There are, it seems, two Muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, “It is yet more difficult than …"

"An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars."

"We are living even now among punishments and ruins."

"We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species."

"What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest."

"I'm not a Baptist in any formal way. I go to the Baptist church, where my wife plays the piano, on days of bad weather. On days of good weather, I ramble off into the woods somewhere. I am a person wh…"