Wendell Berry quote: Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come ...

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

~ Wendell Berry ~

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