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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.

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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Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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We live the given life, and not the planned.
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We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natural world that is a new thing under the sun.
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Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call the economy or the free market is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest.
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
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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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A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.
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In losing stewardship we lose fellowship we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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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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