Wendell Berry Quotes

This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

I realized that the story of even so small a place can never be completely told and can never be finished. It is eternal, always here and now, and going on forever.

You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.