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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
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Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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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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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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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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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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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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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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