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The only true and effective operator's manual for spaceship earth is not a book that any human will ever write it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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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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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
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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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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.
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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, The Unsettling of America)
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We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
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