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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.

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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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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Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
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The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials it honors the place where it is done it honors the art by which it is done it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.
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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
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There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.
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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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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part the free world seems to be regarding it as merely normal.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that to work is to pray. (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)
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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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