“The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.”
― What Are People For?
― What Are People For?
“For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.”
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
― The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Stephanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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