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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
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Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
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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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If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
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...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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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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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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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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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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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
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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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