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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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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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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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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
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Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.
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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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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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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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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)
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The earth is what we all have in common.
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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