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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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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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Nature
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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. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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

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

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The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson

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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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What is a home without children? Quiet. – Henny Youngman

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and thats why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. – Mother Teresa

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