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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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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
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Wendell Erdman Berry
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle... Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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