Quote of the Month
March 2010
"When we tug at a single thing in nature, we
Find it attached to the rest of the world"
John Muir
February 2010
Winter
is the time for comfort, for good
food and warmth, for a touch of a
friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:
it is the time for home.
-Edith Sitwell
January 2010
"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination". Ward Elliot Hour
Quotes from 2009
" So I saw there is nothing better than a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot." Ecclesiastes 3:22
" A life removed from the soil is one that quickly loses touch with reality. And a culture with no agrarian context becomes arrogant in its cleverness, and loses its humility." Joel Salatin
"There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements." Aldo Leopold
" I view the farmer who wants to leave the land in better shape when he leaves it to the next generation as the role model for civilization." Charles Walters Jr.
" A hundred years after we are gone and forgotten, those who never heard of us will be living with the results of our actions." Oliver Wendell Holmes