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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

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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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
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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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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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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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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
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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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They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.
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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.
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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)
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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
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