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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

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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Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.
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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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Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.
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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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