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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.

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
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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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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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.
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The industrial mind is a mind without compunction it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
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A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.
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Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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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.
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