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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.

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
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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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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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
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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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A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
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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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The earth is what we all have in common.
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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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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
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