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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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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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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.' And how long is that going to take?' I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.' That could be a long time.' I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.
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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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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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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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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.
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After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
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I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
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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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