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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
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