Wendell Berry Quotes

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

Movement is a fantastic privilege... but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

People are more easily induced to do, and do more easily, what they are already used to; but people also learn to do things new to them.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

Being in New Zealand, which is incredibly beautiful - I think it's paradise - it's just the perfect place. Everything about it I love, and I would love to live there.

What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?

I like to wear the same kind of boots that I've worn in training going up to the game so that I've got a feel for the boots.

You take for granted that you can walk. You do it every day, and then suddenly you can't walk, and you have to remember, 'How did I get out of this chair and start walking in the first place?'

I'm used to the Journey routine now.

Any time you're comfortable or familiar with something, it's easier than something you're not familiar with.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.

A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.

Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.