Essays, 1969-1990 Quotes

“We cannot look for happiness to any technological paradise or to any New Earth of outer space, but only to the world as it is, and as we have made it. The only life we may hope to live is here. It seems likely that if we are to reach the earthly paradise at all, we will reach it only when we have ceased to strive and hurry so to get there. There is no “there.” We can only wait here, where we are, in the world, obedient to its processes, patient in its taking away, faithful to its returns. And as much as we may know, and all that we deserve, of earthly paradise will come to us.”
― Wendell Berry, Essays, 1969-1990

“We haven’t accepted—we can’t really believe—that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so.”
― Wendell Berry, Essays, 1969-1990