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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal peace treaties. We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
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It's the impeded stream that sings
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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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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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.
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I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.
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