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Richard Gilbert
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The love of making sentences and of discovering insights in the process.
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Shepherd: A Memoir
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A special sentence structure
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Cumulative form fosters a rich, lovely, rhythmic prose style.
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Cumulative form fosters a rich, lovely, rhythmic prose style.
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Caleb Carr’s account of living for almost two decades with a special cat has been hailed as the finest memoir of a cat ever written. It’s easy to agree. He brings uncommon experience with cats and a warm storytelling ability to My Beloved Monster: Ma ...more |
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"A great book about Gilbert’s farming life and how it tested his limits, his ambitions, and his role as a son and father. Beautifully written, funny, sad, and uplifting, Shepherd hits all the notes that make for a great reading experience."
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“The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term "agribusiness." (pg. 285, The Use of Energy)”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
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“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
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