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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Mind
Empty
Room
Rooms
Days
Clear
Come

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A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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My label is just good farming, which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
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But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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The world is whole beyond human knowing.
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
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We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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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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