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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.

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 real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
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One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.
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It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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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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Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real health is harmony with the world.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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