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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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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.
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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
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Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
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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 poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
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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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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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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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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
Wendell Berry
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
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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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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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