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
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.