Quote of the Month

JULY 2010

"Land really is the best art"

Andy Warhol, 1985

MAY 2010

"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourseleves."

                                                                 Mahatma Gandhi    

April 2010

The trees are whispering to me,

reminding me of my roots, and my reach

.....shhhhhh.....

can you hear them?

Selflessly,sharing their subtle song.

                Jeb Dickerson

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