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

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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. – Wendell Berry

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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. – Wendell Berry

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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. – Wendell Berry

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A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. – Rachel Carson

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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? – Henry Ward Beecher

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We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. – Wendell Berry

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