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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.

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
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.
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Love changes, and in change is true.
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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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Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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Invest in the millenium.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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