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Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
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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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Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in justice or in affirmation of rights or in defense of peace do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
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The world is whole beyond human knowing.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
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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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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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