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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.
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A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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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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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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