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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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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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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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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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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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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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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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
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Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real health is harmony with the world.
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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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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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.
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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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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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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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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.
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Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
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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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