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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.
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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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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
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Don't pray for the rain to stop pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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