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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.
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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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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that to work is to pray. (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.
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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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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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I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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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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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real health is harmony with the world.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
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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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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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