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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Kentucky
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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.
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...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
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One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
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The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. Every puddle in the lane is ringed with sipping butterflied that fly up in flutter when you walk past in the late morning on your way to get the mail.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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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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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.
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But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from top to bottom-a symbiosis of an unlimited greed at the top and a lazy, passive, and self-indulgent consumptiveness at the bottom-and all of us are involved in it.
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They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.
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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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A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things it means putting first things first.
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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