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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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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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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
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...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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