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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
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It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
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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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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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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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The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.
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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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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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