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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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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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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.
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In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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