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There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.
– Wendell Berry

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  1. Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. – Wendell Berry
  2. The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. – Wendell Berry
  3. The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. – Wendell Berry
  4. Eating is an agricultural act. – Wendell Berry
  5. Thinking is the most overrated human activity. – Wendell Berry
  6. The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. – Wendell Berry
  7. The significance – and ultimately the quality – of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part. – Wendell Berry
  8. People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. – Wendell Berry
  9. He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. – Wendell Berry
  10. She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. – Wendell Berry
  11. Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. – Wendell Berry
  12. Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. – Wendell Berry
  13. Oh Lord, make us ableTo eat all that’s on this table,And if there’s some we haven’t gotBring it to us while it’s hot – Wendell Berry
  14. And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable. – Wendell Berry
  15. And his words fell upon the table like a blessing. – Wendell Berry
  16. The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character. – Wendell Berry
  17. There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. – Wendell Berry
  18. Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98) – Wendell Berry
  19. …a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one’s bodily life. – Wendell Berry
  20. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. – Wendell Berry
  21. The Earth is what we all have in common. – Wendell Berry
  22. Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. – Wendell Berry
  23. They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  24. As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn’t been able to let him go. – Lindsey Kelk
  25. I think it’s important that (Roe v. Wade) remain legal for medical reasons and other reasons. – Laura Bush
  26. If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  27. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. – NAME
  28. Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don’t go around asking what her reasons are. – Emily Giffin
  29. We focus on the reasons why we -˜can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we -˜can’. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  30. There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be. – Richelle E Goodrich
  31. That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons. – Christy Hall
  32. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura Miller – ????erfly Weeds – Laura Miller
  33. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura Miller – ????erfly Weeds – Laura Miller
  34. If I loved you for no reasons I will hate you for more reasons – Yasser Hakeem
  35. Do not confuse reasons which sound good with good, sound reasons. – Anonymous
  36. Do not confuse reasons which sound good with good, sound reasons. – Anonymous
  37. When Life gives you a 100 reasons to Cry , show life that you have 1000 reasons to Smile – Anisha Dsouza
  38. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile:) – Unknown
  39. He’d kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur’s reasons. Of course, you’ll be just as dead. – Laurell K Hamilton
  40. A visit to the family farm in spring means witnessing growth and challenge and beauty and stillness all rolled into one. – Heidi Barr

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