No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.


Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (ed. Counterpoint Press, 2001) - ISBN: 9781582431413

Wendell Berry Quotes

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in...

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in...

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in...

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in...