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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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We live the given life, and not the planned.
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.
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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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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.
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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
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