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You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

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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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
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Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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When you take away the subsistence economy, then your farm population is seriously exposed to the vagaries of the larger economy. As it used to be, the subsistence economy carried people through the hard times, and what you might call the housewife's economy of cream and eggs often held these farms and their families together.
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
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The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.
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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
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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.
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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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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.
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It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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