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

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

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I mean, dont forget the earths about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? – Harold Pinter

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If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could! – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. – Albert Schweitzer

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Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray

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