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Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.

Wendell Berry
Prayer, Rain, Rocks
"Given". Book by Wendell Berry, 2005.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Wendell Berry
Freedom, Fall, Rain
Wendell Berry (2009). “The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry”, p.136, Counterpoint Press

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

Wendell Berry
Rain, Good Luck, Fishing
Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.148, Counterpoint Press

The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.

Wendell Berry
Rain, Garden, Two

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