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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV
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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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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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