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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

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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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.
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Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
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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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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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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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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
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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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You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.
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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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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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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
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They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, pre-chewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.
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