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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
Poet
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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Love changes, and in change is true.
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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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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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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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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
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