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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
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True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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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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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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