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

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. – Wendell Berry

Category:
Nature
Read Quote

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

Category:
Nature
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Past
category

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

Category:
Past

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

Category:
Past

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

Category:
Past

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

Category:
Past

Random Quotes

A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album. – Bo Bennett

Category:
Future

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we havent been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media. – Bob Beamon

Category:
Sports

Failure is a part of success. – Hank Aaron

Category:
Failure

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think its pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. Theres a lot going on there. – Emeril Lagasse

Category:
Food