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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.

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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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato
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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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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
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There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
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If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
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It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.
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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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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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