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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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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
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The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
Wendell Berry
A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
Wendell Berry
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
Wendell Berry
The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.
Wendell Berry
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.
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