Wendell Berry quote: "Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.<br />(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")"

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard...
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they canno...
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in...
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is t...
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to ...
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent fo...
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said...
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If...
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are no...
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I ha...
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable m...
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and s...
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by ou...
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh...
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Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to the...
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant wo...
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say that your main crop is the forest.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously i...
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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...
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In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...
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The world is whole beyond human knowing.
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History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee...
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As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic,...
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Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractica...
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis wit...
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...
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The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of ...
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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our pr...
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You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of hum...
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We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
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People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good ca...
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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What I stand for is what I stand on.
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Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in th...
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosyste...
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it...
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step feari...
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How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan...
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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“Eating is an agricultural act.”
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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
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The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
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When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
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The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ...
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
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Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
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It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
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Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
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No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
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The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
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...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
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We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
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Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
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We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
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Sabbaths, 1982—IV
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)

Thrush song,...
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I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the wo...
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That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow v...
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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
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[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as m...
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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
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The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present co...
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We clasp the hands of those that go before us, And the hands of those who come after us. We enter th...
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and s...
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We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and ...
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As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored...
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Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how co...
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If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, t...
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In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and ho...
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The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones f...
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A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue...
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The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if ...
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Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the...
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If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to...
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While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done...
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But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent socie...
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A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd ...
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We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the presen...
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A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It ...
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If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' ...
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The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a h...
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Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relat...
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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a ...
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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until...
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My vision of the gathered church that had come to me... had been replaced by a vision of the gathere...
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What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when wh...
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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. It does not accept that limit. Of all that we feel...
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Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social ...
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This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing...
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The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The ...
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in...
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Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may ...
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I don’t hesitate to say that damage or destruction of the land-community is morally wrong, just as...
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We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials,...
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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lov...
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What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing po...
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Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,
and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kin...
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He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining r...
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Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren a...
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Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of...
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...And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear. WENDELL BERRY

The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealt...
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Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its p...
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A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of ...
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As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be ...
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Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors...
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Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulti...
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The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and re...
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Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting...
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We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemploym...
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The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cu...
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To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judg...
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I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral bo...
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance ...
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Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in i...
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I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest...
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Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relatio...
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This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and pla...
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There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-pro...
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It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the stu...
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Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both d...
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It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding t...
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Eating is an agricultural act.
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The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the ni...
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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the r...
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From the union of power and money,
from the union of power and secrecy,
from the union of ...
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We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of won...
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that ev...
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We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would...
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It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserv...
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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We ...
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The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who kno...
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Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world ...
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He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he ...
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No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living respon...
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The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys ...
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I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurs...
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It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The min...
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Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less a...
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As I age in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, t...
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The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leadin...
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The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the...
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Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-...
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Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even ...
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Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way y...
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far awa...
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, e...
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Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real...
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Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY

I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY

Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY

If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it...
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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's li...
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Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the a...
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While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as ...
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all...
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Beauty is not just physical.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mou...
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to m...
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just f...
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a...
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am....
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love...
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a ...
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you...
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as ...
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a voi...
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No ...
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There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've ha...
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at ob...
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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")