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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
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The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
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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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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
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We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.
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It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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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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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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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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