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Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
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What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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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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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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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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...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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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
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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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