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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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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We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
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I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.
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Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.
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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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