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Quote by Wendell Berry
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own wher

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. – Wendell Berry

Other quotes by Wendell Berry

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. – Wendell Berry

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Competition
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Wendell Berry
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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. – Wendell Berry

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Past
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Wendell Berry
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

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Nature

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Nature

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and childrens faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. – Sara Teasdale

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Nature

A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds! – Dave Beard

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Nature

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Beauty and grace command the world. – Park Benjamin

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Grace

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. – Joseph Addison

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Gratitude

The highest virtue here may be least in another world. – Khalil Gibran

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Perspective

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless hes been in so long that it just doesnt matter, and hes not running for president. But its just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and youre just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it. – Mark Russell

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Humor