• The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.

    Wendell Berry: The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free.  To hell with restraint,  it says,  I have got to be going.  It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
    Wendell Berry (2010). “Leavings: Poems”, p.13, Counterpoint Press