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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure)
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Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal peace treaties. We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.
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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, The Unsettling of America)
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Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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