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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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Love changes, and in change is true.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
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In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.
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It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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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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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
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I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.
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Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land
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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.
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