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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

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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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
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I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.
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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
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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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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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