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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
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Jesus
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After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
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We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.
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I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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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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Love changes, and in change is true.
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
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Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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