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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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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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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
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It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.
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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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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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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.
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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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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The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.
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