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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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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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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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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
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Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
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Outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary, but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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Invest in the millenium.
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We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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