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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
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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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In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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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 soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
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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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The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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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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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
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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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But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.
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