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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful

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
Immeasurable
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Laughter

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The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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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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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.
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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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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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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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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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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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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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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
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