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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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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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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.
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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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The world is whole beyond human knowing.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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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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One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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