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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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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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It may be that when we no longer know... which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
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At home the great delight is to see the clover and grass now growing on places that were bare when we came. These small healings of the ground are my model accomplishment-everything else I do must aspire to that. While I was at that work the world gained with every move I made, and I harmed nothing.
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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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The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
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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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The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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What can't be helped must be endured.
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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
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I dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will.
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It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.
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Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.
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