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Janisse’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Janisse’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Janisse Ray
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Born
in Baxley, Georgia, The United States
February 02, 1962
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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1999
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12 editions
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The Woods of Fannin County
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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2012
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Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home
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2003
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
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2011
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Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
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2021
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
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2005
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A House of Branches
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2010
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Craft and Current: A Manual for Magical Writing
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Moody Forest
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2007
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Mystery of the Missing Mail
Your source for essays about being human in a wild world and wild in a human world. Thank you for being here.
THE FIRST DAY NO mail arrived we didn’t even notice. The second day with no mail didn’t register either. At evening the third day, I asked Raven, my husband, “Did you get the mail?”
“I checked it,” he replied, serving up mashed potatoes. “No mail.”
Raven and I live on a rural route, thirteen
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Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home (The World As Home):
"I love Janisse Ray and there way of writing, am not gonna spoil it but for me the book was really like a Wild Card Quilt, each entry is like a stand alone sequence, there is no order, well kinda, as you keep reading the book gets easier to understand"
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"It took me a long time to "get into" this book, but about halfway through, I really began to enjoy it. I appreciate the author's love of the Earth, and her work and dedication to help save its precious spaces. Thank you Janisse for all you do for the"
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Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home (The World As Home):
"Less autobiographical than Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and more informative about her conservation efforts for the Georgia long leaf pine forests. When Ray is seeking out like-minded people in rural Georgia she laments, "Over
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| This book is a SCAM. Do not buy it. Do not read it. It is the (poorly done) AI transcript of a Tim Ferriss podcast interview, put into book form. Ferriss did NOT do this. There is NOTHING in the book about Shopify except a 30-second advertisement fro ...more | |
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“I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“The assumption is that hope is a prerequisite for action. Without hope one becomes depressed and then unable to act.
I want to stress that I do not act because I have hope. I act whether I have hope or not. It is useless to rely on hope as motivation to do what's necessary and just and right. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about love as motivation to act?
I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.
We are going to have to fall in love with place again and learn to stay put.”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
I want to stress that I do not act because I have hope. I act whether I have hope or not. It is useless to rely on hope as motivation to do what's necessary and just and right. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about love as motivation to act?
I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.
We are going to have to fall in love with place again and learn to stay put.”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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“Now I lay me down to sleep. I pay the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pay the Lord my soul to take.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“The moral of the story, Son," Pun would say, "is Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off on your heels."
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“Are you going to farmer up or just lie there and bleed?”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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Can't wait to get my hands (and eyes and heart) on Moody Forest! Meanwhile, keep warm this chilly day.
