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Quotes from Given — Wendell Berry

1934–2026 United States

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A mind that has confronted ruin for years
Is half or more a ruined mind.

Given (2005)

Small creatures die because
larger creatures are hungry.
How superior to this
human confusion of greed
and creed, blood and fire.

Given (2005)

Ask the world to reveal its quietude —
not the silence of machines when they are still,
but the true quiet by which birdsongs,
trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms
become what they are, and are nothing else.

Given (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wendell Berry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.