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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
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, The Body and the Earth)
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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.
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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
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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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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
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After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
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