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The world is whole beyond human knowing.

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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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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The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.
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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
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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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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
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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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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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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
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