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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

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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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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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
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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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It's the impeded stream that sings
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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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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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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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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Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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We live the given life, and not the planned.
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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.
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Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.
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The earth is what we all have in common.
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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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I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.
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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
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