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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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A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.
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In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
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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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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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It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.
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You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
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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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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.
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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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To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.
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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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There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
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But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way for his life to come to him, if it will. Like a tree, he has given roots to the earth, and stands free.
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