It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. -Wendell Berry

 

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Wendell Berry quotes in our collection. Wendell Berry is known for saying 'It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.' as well as some of the following quotes.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

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

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Wendell Berry

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

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