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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

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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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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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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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.
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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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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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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, The Body and the Earth)
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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