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My label is just good farming, which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

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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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We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
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The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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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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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
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The only true and effective operator's manual for spaceship earth is not a book that any human will ever write it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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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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