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Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
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I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
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...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
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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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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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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or sustainable. We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.
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As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no intellectual property, and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.
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Invest in the millenium.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
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So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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