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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
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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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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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 shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.
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All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
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True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.
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Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
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We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or sustainable. We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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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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There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.
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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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Love changes, and in change is true.
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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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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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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