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Healing is impossible in loneliness it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, The Body and the Earth)
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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