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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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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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Willing to die you give up your will keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
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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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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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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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