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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
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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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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.
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Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in justice or in affirmation of rights or in defense of peace do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.
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The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.
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Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
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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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