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I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

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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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
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The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
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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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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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