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I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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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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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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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 old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, pre-chewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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