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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 the little circle of each other's arms And the larger circle of lovers, Whose hands are joined in a dance, And the larger circle of all creatures, Passing in and out of life, Who move also in a dance, To a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it Except in fragments»
«The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.»
Author: Wendell Berry | About: Past | Keywords: adding, definition, escape, strive
«Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do»
Author: Wendell Berry | About: Politicians | Keywords: deals, Politicians, sterner, sternest, votes
«When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.»
«I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.»
Author: Wendell Berry | About: Grace, Grief, Life, Peace | Keywords: come into, forethought, Peace of
«It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.»
Author: Wendell Berry
«The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.»
«To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.»
«We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?»
Author: Wendell Berry | About: Learning | Keywords: gardens, urgent
«I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.»

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