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Seriousness seemed the only mood a plain girl might adopt without exposing herself to the scorn or pity of others.
“I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”
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“Landscapes like ours were created by and survive through the efforts of nobodies. That's why I was so shocked to be given such a dead, rich, white man's version of its history at school. This is a landscape of modest, hardworking people. The real history of our landscape should be the history of the nobodies.”
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
“Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
“And then we do it all again, just as our forefathers did before us. It is a farming pattern, fundamentally unchanged from many centuries ago. It has changed in scale (as farms have amalgamated to survive, so there are fewer us of ) but not in its basic content. You could bring a Viking man to stand on our fell with me and he would understand what we were doing and the basic pattern of our farming year. The timing of each task varies depending on the different valleys and farms. Things are driven by the seasons and necessity, but not our will." (p. 32)”
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
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