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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part the free world seems to be regarding it as merely normal.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land
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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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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
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It's the impeded stream that sings
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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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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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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