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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
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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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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 grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
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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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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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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that to work is to pray. (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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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 surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Healing is impossible in loneliness it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, The Body and the Earth)
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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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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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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The earth is what we all have in common.
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