To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. – Wendell Berry
We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Wendell Berry