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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, fo...more

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No one has madethe art by which one makes the worksof art. Each one who speaks speaksas a convocation. We live as councilsof ghosts. It is not "human ...more

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She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.

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And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

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At every point in our food economy, present conditions remaining, we must expect to come to a time when demand (for quantity or quality) going up will...more

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As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist." The small family farm is one of the la...more

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A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of the 'Mysteries of God.'"The husband, unlike the "m...more

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Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "L...more

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How joyful to be together, aloneas when we first were joinedin our little house by the riverlong ago, except that now we knoweach other, as we did not...more

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I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits int...more

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And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but som...more

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I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it a...more

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I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the milk came, she began a li...more

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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that poss...more

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This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its causes and justifications, it wo...more