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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.

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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Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact it is not a quantity.
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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.
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We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
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We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.
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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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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
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