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The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
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If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.
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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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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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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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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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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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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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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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