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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children...
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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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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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.
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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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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
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The world is whole beyond human knowing.
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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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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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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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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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