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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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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It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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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'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 gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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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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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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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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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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