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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves
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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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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
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