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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
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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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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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