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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

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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But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, The Body and the Earth)
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
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I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
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If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
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