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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or sustainable. We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato
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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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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.
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and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.
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The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. Every puddle in the lane is ringed with sipping butterflied that fly up in flutter when you walk past in the late morning on your way to get the mail.
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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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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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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