# Given

- Author: [Wendell Berry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/given

## Quotes

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/given/a-mind-that.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/given/small-creatures-die.md)

> Sit and be still
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> until in the time
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> of no rain you hear
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> beneath the dry wind's
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> commotion in the trees
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> the sound of flowing
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> water among the rocks,
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> a stream unheard before,
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> and you are where
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> breathing is prayer.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/given/sit-and-be-still.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/given/ask-the-world.md)