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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
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Action can only be understood in relation to place only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.
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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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They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
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It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
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We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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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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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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