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I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.
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It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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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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We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.
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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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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to spiritual subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.
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I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
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So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.
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It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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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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