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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
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It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)
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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
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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.
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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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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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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