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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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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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We clasp the hands of those who go before us.
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For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
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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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We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.
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We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
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It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
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All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.
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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
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You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.
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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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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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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
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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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We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.
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