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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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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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But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.
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It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
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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.
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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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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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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I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)
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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.
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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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The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
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People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.
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Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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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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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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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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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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