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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.

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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Born
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They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, pre-chewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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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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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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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
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The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.
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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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THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.
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