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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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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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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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Invest in the millenium.
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One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
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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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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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The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
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Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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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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The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.
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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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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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