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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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The only true and effective operator's manual for spaceship earth is not a book that any human will ever write it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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