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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

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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That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and must have it before we can eat-may seem absurd. It is absurd. It is nevertheless true.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
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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 surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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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 only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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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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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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