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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
Author
Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
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One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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