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Wendell Berry Quotes: If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
         

If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.


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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 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.



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.

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.



It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.



Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.

Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.



Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.



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.

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.



We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.



You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.



Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.



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.

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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If something happens that causes you Pain, remind yourself that you can’t get the Rainbow without a little Rain.



She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!

She was like a mermaid enrapturing me the sailor with all her charms!



Bring your heart power into play to create the things that you wish in your life through energising your desires with your heart energy.

Bring your heart power into play to create the things that you wish in your life through energising your desires with your heart energy.



I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.



Instruct the mothers of the French people.

Instruct the mothers of the French people.



I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.

I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.



I was born modest, but it didn't last.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.



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I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.



Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.

Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.




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