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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
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Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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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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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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