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...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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My label is just good farming, which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.
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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.
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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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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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 only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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