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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
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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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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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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Action can only be understood in relation to place only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
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I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.
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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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If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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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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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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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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