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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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
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Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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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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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.
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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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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.
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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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