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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.
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Why I am NOT going to buy a computer
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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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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
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How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves
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We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
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People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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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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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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