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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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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
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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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Be joyful because it is humanly possible.
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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
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They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part the free world seems to be regarding it as merely normal.
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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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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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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