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

Other quotes by Wendell Berry

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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Gardens
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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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Food
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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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positive
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Other Quotes from
Past
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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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Past

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

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Past

Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Past

My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

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Past

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His love shone as impartial as the sun. – Maurice Thompson

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Once youre successful with a certain kind of music, its hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful. – Roberta Flack

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