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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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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle... Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.
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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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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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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.
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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.
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We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.
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The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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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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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.
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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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