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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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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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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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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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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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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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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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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.
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The language that reveals also obscures.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.
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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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