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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

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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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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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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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.
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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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American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.
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True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.
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You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV
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If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?
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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 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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An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
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A Sustainable Agriculture does not deplete soils or people.
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When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
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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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If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.
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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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