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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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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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To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.
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It's the impeded stream that sings
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.
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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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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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