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So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
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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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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
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One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.
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