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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
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
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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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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
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I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.
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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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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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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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