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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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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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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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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.
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