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What can't be helped must be endured.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
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If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.
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We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
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Why I am NOT going to buy a computer
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.
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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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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 promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
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