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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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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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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
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In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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