"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

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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.

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