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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
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.
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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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Love changes, and in change is true.
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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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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It's the impeded stream that sings
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