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If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

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
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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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 freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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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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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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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.
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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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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
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I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children...
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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