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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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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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They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, pre-chewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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