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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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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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