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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Kentucky
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
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Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.
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There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.
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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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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.
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It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.
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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.
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