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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Life
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.
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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
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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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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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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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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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