7 quotes
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.
Another Turn of the Crank (1996)
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment.
What Are People For? (1990)
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
The context of love is the world.
What Are People For? (1990)
Small farms make economic sense. They also produce more happiness, more beauty, more health—those things that aren’t so quantifiable...
Caretaking by Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge, Orion Magazine (2019)
We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
Life Is A Miracle : An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)