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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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Henry County
Kentucky
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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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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Invest in the millenium.
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.
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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
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Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
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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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It's the impeded stream that sings
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But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.
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The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.
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