Wendell Berry Quotes

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

The world is interconnected and causations run in many directions at once.

A border is not only a separation; it’s a connection.

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.

I know how inter-dependent the world is.

Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.

They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent.

All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.