Wendell Berry Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

  Wendell Berry

  Fire, House, Relieved

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.148, Counterpoint Press

• As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Sheep, Years

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

• How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves

  Wendell Berry

  Soulmate, Long Ago, Two

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.315, Counterpoint Press

• One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.

  Wendell Berry

  House, Conventions, Mailboxes

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.40, Counterpoint Press

• And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds and saplings with an old chimney sticking up by itself...and here I look ahead to the resting of my case: I love the house that belonged to the chimney, holding it bright in memory, and love the saplings and the weeds.

  Wendell Berry

  Weed, Memories, House

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