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If you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Kentucky
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A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.
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The earth is what we all have in common.
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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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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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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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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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
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As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.
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Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.
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