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"40 Wendell Berry Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 5 August 1934 | Novelist | Poet | Essayist | Activist | Critic | Farmer |

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

You Know Hard time Going
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead

When Going back Sense Ahead
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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.

Young Vision Love Life
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Freedom Affluence Opposes Life
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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

Christian Gospel Peace Love
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
World Time Love Death
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

Man Machine Culture Pestilence
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

Music New World Being
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Knowledge Ability Feel Think
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

Waking Dream You Life
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When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf.

Rise up Joyful Fall Regret
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

We Truth God Task
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The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

Crisis Community Corruption Character
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This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.

Religion Beauty Goodness World
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Care Earth Responsibility Hope
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

People Food Health Attention
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

We Succeed Earth Live
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Do unto Downstream Upstream You
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
You Life Commit Direction
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Save Land People Apart
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Live Laws Human being Justice
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

We need Better Government Minds
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

Good work Every one Begin Do it
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Love Dark Shining Gold
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Interested Food Production Absurd
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Agriculture Income Productivity Health
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

Mind Baffled Unemployed
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What I stand for is what I stand on

What Stand for On
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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.

Past Defination Strive Escape
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Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Living Expections Hope Love
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

Serious Peace Work Bravely
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.

Sustainable Agriculture People Land
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Possible Live Future Past
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
Future Responsible Behaviour Present
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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.

Best day Life Worry Possibility
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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.

Obsession Security Power Future
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

Rely Nature's Wisdom Man's cleverness
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

Treat Life Miracle Give up
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous

Action Love Hope Responsible
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Ability Speak Exactly Know
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Wendell Berry Quotes & Sayings