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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'
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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
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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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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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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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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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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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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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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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Physical health doesn't exist apart from the health of other things. Health ultimately involves the community, and the community ultimately involves the place and natural life of that place, so that real health is harmony with the world.
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A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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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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