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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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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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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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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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As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no intellectual property, and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.
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