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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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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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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
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