Quote by Wendell Berry
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to es

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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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they cant be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. – Wendell Berry

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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. – Wendell Berry

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. – André Maurois

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I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. – From the television show The Wonder Years

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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. – Dale Turner

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Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. – John Donne

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