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.

Quote by Wendell Berry

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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...

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...

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...

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.

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:...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

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...

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...

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...

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life...

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life...

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen...

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen...

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the...

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the...

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

Every judgement blocks the light!

Every judgement blocks the light!

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.