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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

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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Live
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Wasting

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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
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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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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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