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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
Wendell Berry
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Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
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At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.
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Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.
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Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
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The developed nations had given to the free market the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
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I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.
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Thinking is the most overrated human activity.
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds.
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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.
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Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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