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What I stand for is what I stand on.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
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I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.
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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
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The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. Every puddle in the lane is ringed with sipping butterflied that fly up in flutter when you walk past in the late morning on your way to get the mail.
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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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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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The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be mitigated by mercy. And you don't get to mercy by a legal principle. You get to mercy by way of imagination, sympathy, tenderness of heart - which are not weaknesses.
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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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Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
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The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.
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The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
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