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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

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
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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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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
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You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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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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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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