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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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I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first. – 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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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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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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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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The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. – Ralph Blum

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