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

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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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry

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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. – Wendell Berry

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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. – Wendell Berry

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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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We need not destroy the past. It is gone. – John Cage

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