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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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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 most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.
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I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children...
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My label is just good farming, which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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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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You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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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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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
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