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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, The Body and the Earth)
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
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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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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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Why I am NOT going to buy a computer
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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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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