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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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The earth is what we all have in common.
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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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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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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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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
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But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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