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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

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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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
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A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.
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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
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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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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
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