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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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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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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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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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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
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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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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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The only true and effective operator's manual for spaceship earth is not a book that any human will ever write it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
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