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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.

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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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
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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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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our 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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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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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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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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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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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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