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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Dawn
Red
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no intellectual property, and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.
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Love changes, and in change is true.
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A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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The world is whole beyond human knowing.
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I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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