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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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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 would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
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There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
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Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
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