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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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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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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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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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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.
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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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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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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
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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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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
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