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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

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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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
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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 river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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