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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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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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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.
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It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
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