"The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking."

-- Wendell Berry

#Land Quotes #Community Quotes #Care Quotes

“I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.”
“A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.”
“Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.”
“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”
“I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.”

Source : "Quitting the Paint Factory". Harper’s Magazine, November 2004.
“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.”
“I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.”
“A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?”

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