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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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We live the given life, and not the planned.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.
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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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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 are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or sustainable. We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.
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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 obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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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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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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