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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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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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Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life stay away from screens.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.
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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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What can't be helped must be endured.
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All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.
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