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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
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
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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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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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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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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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