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.

Quote by Wendell Berry

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all...

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all...

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time:...

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time:...

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't...

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only...

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or...

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or...

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what...

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only...

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at...

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at...

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or...

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or...

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in...

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in...

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with...

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with...

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all...

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all...

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which...

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take...

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take...