Given

by Wendell Berry

Teach me work that honors Thy work, the true economies of goods and words, to make my arts compatible with the songs of the local birds.

But do the Lords of War in fact hate the world? That would be easy to bear, if so. If they hated their children and the flowers that grow in the warming light, that would be easy to bear. For then we could hate the haters and be right. What is hard is to imagine the Lords of War may love the things that they destroy.

Jayber Crow in old age) To think of gathering all the sorrows of Port William into myself, and so sparing the others: What freedom! What joy!