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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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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.
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We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.
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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
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Analogies have tied things together for me, personally. The fundamental one for me is the analogy between your relationship to your spouse and your relationship to your place. Both need to be a settled commitment and both involve continuous learning and adjusting.
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We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.
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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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