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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Pray
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Floods
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Flood
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Fishing

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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.
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