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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.
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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
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The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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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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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.
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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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We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
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The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
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The only true and effective operator's manual for spaceship earth is not a book that any human will ever write it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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