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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.
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It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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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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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
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My label is just good farming, which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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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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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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