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Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.
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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A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
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At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.
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The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
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And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present
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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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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
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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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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle... Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.
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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.
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