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When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we call fertility begins to diminish, and the soil itself begins to flee from us in water and wind.
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 presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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When despair for the world grows in me... I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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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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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
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The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
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