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. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – 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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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. – Wendell Berry

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There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined youd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. – Ayelet Waldman

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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Natures chief masterpiece is writing well. – Andre Breton

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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen mens apples and head their cabbages. – Cyrano de Bergerac

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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