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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Wheat
Bread
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Alone
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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
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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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We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
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The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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