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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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Henry County
Kentucky
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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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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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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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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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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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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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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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle... Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.
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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
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