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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials it honors the place where it is done it honors the art by which it is done it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.
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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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