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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
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The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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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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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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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 hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. 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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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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