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Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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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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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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