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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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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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 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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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal peace treaties. We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no intellectual property, and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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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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