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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 was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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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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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
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Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.
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The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.
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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.
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
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The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
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