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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.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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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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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.
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