Wendell Berry

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

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Two or three times in my life I've consciously sought out solitude precisely so that I could free myself of troubling obligations and be myself. Berry articulates my feelings more eloquently and more succinctly than I ever did. Strange that I ran across citations of Berry that moved me deeply in two different contexts today.