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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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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
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Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.
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We live the given life, and not the planned.
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The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences.
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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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If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.
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One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
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Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'
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I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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