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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.

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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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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Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
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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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The earth is what we all have in common.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
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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 incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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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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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
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The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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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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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
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