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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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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful.
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We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
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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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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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