Wendell Berry Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

  Wendell Berry

  Distance, Wine, Air

• When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.

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  Regret, Fall, Bird

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.68, Counterpoint Press

• Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Lying, Heart

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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