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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
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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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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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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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle... Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.
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It's the impeded stream that sings
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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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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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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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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)
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A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
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I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children...
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
Wendell Berry
So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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