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I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
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The developed nations had given to the free market the status of a god, and were sacrificing to it their farmers, farmlands, and communities, their forests, wetlands, and prairies, their ecosystems and watersheds. They had accepted universal pollution and global warming as normal costs of doing business.
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We are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or sustainable. We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.
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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around.
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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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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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So friends, every day do something that won't compute.
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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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Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!
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