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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

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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The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
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Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.
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We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
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Love changes, and in change is true.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.
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Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
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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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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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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.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
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