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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

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
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Creation
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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
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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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I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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