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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

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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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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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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Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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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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My label is just good farming, which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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