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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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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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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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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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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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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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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 reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.
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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
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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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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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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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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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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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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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