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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.
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We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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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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True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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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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