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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal peace treaties. We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.
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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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