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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
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Minds
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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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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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.
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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
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Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
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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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You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
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Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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Action can only be understood in relation to place only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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