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Wendell Berry
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We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves.
It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.
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― The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
― The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
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At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes that everybody has agrarian responsibilities, it does not propose that everybody should be a farmer or that we do not need cities. Nor does it propose that every product be a necessity. Furthermore, any thinkable human economy would have to grant to manufacturing an appropriate and honorable place. Agrarians would insist only that any manufacturing enterprise should be formed and scaled to fit the
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― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
