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A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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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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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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