with soil and sunlight

"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

Posted by jeff at June 5, 2003 01:54 PM

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