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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.

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
Love
Truest
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
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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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It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
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To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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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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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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