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Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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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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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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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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Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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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 shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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THE WILD ROSE” – BY WENDELL BERRY Sometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritual I live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart. Suddenly you flare again in my sight A wild rose at the edge of the thicket where yesterday there was only shade And I am blessed and choose again, That which I chose before.
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.
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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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When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.
Wendell Berry
Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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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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