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Eating is an agricultural act.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Agriculture
Eating
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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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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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
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A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.
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The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.
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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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