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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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Henry County
Kentucky
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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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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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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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I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV
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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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The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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