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We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

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
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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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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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
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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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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
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It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
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