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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

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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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 teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.
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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
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The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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