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You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.

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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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.
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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 can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.
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It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.
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Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.
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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
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Give your approval to all you cannot understand.
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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But we can do nothing for the human future that we will not do for the human present. For the amelioration of the future condition of our kind we must look, not to the wealth or the genius of the coming generations, but to the quality of the disciplines and attitudes that we are preparing now for their use.
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