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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

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
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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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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
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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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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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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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The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves
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and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.
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All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.
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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
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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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Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
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