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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.

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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I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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