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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.
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The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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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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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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