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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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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
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It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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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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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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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
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Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.
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