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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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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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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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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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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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