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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
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.
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Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
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