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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.
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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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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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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.
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We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal peace treaties. We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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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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But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves
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