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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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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.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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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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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.
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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
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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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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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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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