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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
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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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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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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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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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
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The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.
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Invest in the millenium.
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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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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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