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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our 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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To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.
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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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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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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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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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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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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.
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Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.
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The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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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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I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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