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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.
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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When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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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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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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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 a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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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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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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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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The language that reveals also obscures.
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The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.
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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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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
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All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
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