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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.
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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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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Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.
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We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or sustainable. We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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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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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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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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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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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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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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It's the impeded stream that sings
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
Wendell Berry
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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