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If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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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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Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.
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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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Love changes, and in change is true.
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You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
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Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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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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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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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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There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.
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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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