Wendell Berry Quotes about Food

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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Wendell Berry

Food, Cooking, Red Lipstick

Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.49, Counterpoint Press

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

Wendell Berry

Gratitude, Food, Ignorance

Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.152, Counterpoint

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

Wendell Berry

Spiritual, Loneliness, Food