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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.
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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.
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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.
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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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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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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
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A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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