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There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

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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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
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The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal peace treaties. We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them.
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Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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If we do not serve what coheres and endures, we serve what disintegrates and destroys.
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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