Wendell Berry

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

— Wendell Berry

I think the issues of "identity" mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

— Wendell Berry

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

— Wendell Berry

A man cannot despair if he can only imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility.

— Wendell Berry