All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows....


New Collected Poems (ed. Counterpoint Press, 2012) - ISBN: 9781582438153

Wendell Berry Quotes

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's...

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's...

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's...

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's...