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"What I stand for is what I stand on."
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"Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire."
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Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977). His attention to the culture and economy of rural communities is also found in the novels and stories of Port W
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"The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves..."
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"Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism."
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"Novelty is a new kind of loneliness."
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"I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
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"Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there."
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