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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
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It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.
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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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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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The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
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The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
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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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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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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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...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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Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.
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The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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