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Wendell Berry

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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?


— Wendell Berry


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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.


— Wendell Berry


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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.


— Wendell Berry


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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.


— Wendell Berry


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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.


— Wendell Berry


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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.


— Wendell Berry


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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.


— Wendell Berry


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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.


— Wendell Berry


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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.


— Wendell Berry


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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.


— Wendell Berry


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About Wendell Berry

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Did you know about Wendell Berry?

Given: New Poems. Wind Publications 2005. 2004.

He is also an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers a recipient of The National Humanities Medal and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He is a prolific author of novels short stories poems and essays. Wendell Berry (born August 5 1934) is an American man of letters academic cultural and economic critic and farmer.

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