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Quote by Wendell Berry
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to

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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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

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Nature
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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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Past
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. – Wendell Berry

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Death
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We cant blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesnt put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them its dirty and dangerous. – David Suzuki

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In the general course of human nature, A power over a mans subsistence amounts to a power over his will. – Alexander Hamilton

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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. – Sophocles

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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. – Jean Paul

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