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

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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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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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. – Wendell Berry

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

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

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