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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part the free world seems to be regarding it as merely normal.
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We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
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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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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.
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The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
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The only true and effective operator's manual for spaceship earth is not a book that any human will ever write it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
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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 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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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
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