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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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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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