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One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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