To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it. ✨ Wendell Be…

Wendell Berry
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To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it. ✨ Wendell Berry (2001). Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition, Counterpoint Press
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