Wendell Berry

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

"The standard that I always come back to is the health of the world, which is the same as our own personal health. We can’t distinguish our health from the health of everything else. And we know enough…"

"I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love."

"The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly."

"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."