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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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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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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
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