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Wendell Berry : Ask the world to reveal its quietude— not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else. # Solitude

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Lewis Mumford : " The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon. " # Solitude

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Frank Lloyd Wright : " I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. " # Solitude

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George Macdonald : " God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. " # Solitude

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Edward Hoagland : " True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. " # Solitude

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Charles Hartshorne : " Musicians who have listened to birds believe [that birds derive pleasure from singing] much more than ornithologists, who are terrified of being accused of anthropomorphism... Having studied thousands of hours of birdsong from around the world, I am convinced some species possess an aesthetic sense, however limited compared to ours. It is part of human egotism to believe that only we have active minds. " # Solitude

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John Brunner : " First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines. " # Solitude

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Simone Weil : " Nothing is less instructive than a machine. " # Solitude

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Lord Kelvin : " Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. " # Solitude

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Yogi Berra : " He's a big clog in their machine. " # Solitude

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George Bernard Shaw : " You're not a man, you're a machine. " # Solitude

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Wendell Berry: " In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world." # Health

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Wendell Berry: " To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival." # Friends and Friendship

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Wendell Berry: " Our century of war, militarism, and political terror has produced great—and successful—advocates of true peace, among whom Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., are the paramount examples. The considerable success that they achieved testifies to the presence, in the midst of violence, of an authentic and powerful desire for peace and, more important, of the proven will to make the necessary sacrifices." # Language

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Wendell Berry: " So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed." # Friends and Friendship

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Wendell Berry: " Eating is an agricultural act." # Farming and Farmers

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Wendell Berry: " If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then the world is no doubt better for his absence. But in killing my neighbor, though he may have been a terrible man who did not deserve to live, I have made myself a killer—and the life of my next neighbor is in greater peril than the life of the last. In making myself a killer I have destroyed the possibility of neighborhood." # Neighbors

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Wendell Berry: " We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species." # Stupidity

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Wendell Berry: " Reductionism (ultimately, the empirical explanability of everything and a cornerstone of science), has uses that are appropriate, and it also can be used inappropriately. It is appropriately used as a way (one way) of understanding what is empirically known or empirically knowable. When it becomes merely an intellectual "position" confronting what is not empirically known or knowable, then it becomes very quickly absurd, and also grossly desensitizing and false." # Democracy

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Wendell Berry: " In a modern war, fought with modern weapons and on the modern scale, neither side can limit to “the enemy” the damage that it does. These wars damage the world. We know enough by now to know that you cannot damage a part of the world without damaging all of it. Modern war has not only made it impossible to kill “combatants” without killing “noncombatants,” it has made it impossible to damage your enemy without damaging yourself." # War

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Wendell Berry: " It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are." # Excellence

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