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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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Henry County
Kentucky
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If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.
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Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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The developed nations had given to the free market the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.
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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life stay away from screens.
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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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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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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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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.
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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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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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Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
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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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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
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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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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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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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