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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.
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If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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We live the given life, and not the planned.
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But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.
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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)
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