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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Pavement
Dreaming
Dirt
Grass
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
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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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