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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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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.
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My label is just good farming, which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
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You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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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.
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.
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I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.
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