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This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part the free world seems to be regarding it as merely normal.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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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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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
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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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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
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Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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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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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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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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