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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

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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So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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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 be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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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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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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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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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
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The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
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