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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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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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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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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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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. 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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Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.
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The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.
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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that to work is to pray. (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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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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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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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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