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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.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being.
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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And if we ask what are the cultural resources that can inform and sustain a proper creaturely and stewardly awareness of the lives in a farmer's keeping, I believe that we will find them gathered under the heading of husbandry.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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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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There are no unsacred places there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.
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There are some things the arrogant mind does not see it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.
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The only sustainable city - and this, to me, is the indispensable ideal and goal - is a city in balance with its countryside.
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We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
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To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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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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