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It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth.

— Wendell Berry The Unsettling of America (1977)

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Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

A Continuous Harmony (1972)

If you can control a people’s economy, you don’t need to worry about its politics; its politics have become irrelevant.

Another Turn of the Crank (1996)

To be sane in a mad time
is bad for the brain, worse
for the heart.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

What Are People For? (1990)

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

The Long-Legged House (1969)

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