Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when…

Wendell Berry
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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. ✨ Wendell Berry (2013). This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012, p.219, Counterpoint
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