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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
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The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an object. This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.
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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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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 past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.
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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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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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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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What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
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From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark.
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