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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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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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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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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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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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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
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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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I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.
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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.
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