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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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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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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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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 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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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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