“Life is easy. We make it hard.”
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“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”
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“When people learn to preserve the richness of the land that God has given them and the rights to enjoy the fruits of their own labors then will be the time when all shall have meat in the smokehouse corn in the crib and time to go to the election. ("W.C." of Rural Neck KY in a letter to Farmers Home Journal - 1892)”
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.”
― The Long-Legged House
― The Long-Legged House
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