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