“We are living even now among punishments and ruins.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
"A Few Words in Favor of Edward Abbey".
What Are People For? (1990)
“We moralise among ruins.”
Bk. V, Ch. 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
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