Jason

“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to other of the highest and best feelings to which mankind has risen." It seems to me that, regarding agrarian art, the farther it moves away from the natural world, especially when the main goal is money profits, the more difficult it becomes for it to reflect "the highest and best feelings" of humanity. The same is true of, of course, of agriculture itself. The farther it tries to remove itself from nature in search of money, the more it moves away from the highest and healthiest kinds of food.”
― Gene Logsdon, The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse

“Of course, there are those churches today that are inspired by the real living presence of Christ, but as a whole, Christianity needs new life breathed into it. It needs to be challenged to awaken from the old structures that confine spirit, so that the perennial spirit of awakening can flourish once again.”
― Adyashanti, Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic

“It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.”
― Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural