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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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Wendell Erdman Berry
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After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.
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When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
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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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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
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Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
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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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