TOP 10 Wendell Berry quotes

10

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

9

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

8

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

7

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

6

He had nothing he could do with is life's work now except leave it to a man who thought nothing of it.

5

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

4

This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.

3

I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.

2

Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.

1

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.