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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.

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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O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.
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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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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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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
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Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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