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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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Action can only be understood in relation to place only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.
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The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials it honors the place where it is done it honors the art by which it is done it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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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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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
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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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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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