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Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.
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Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.
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A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth
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When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Born:
1952
(age 72)
Bio:
Verlyn Klinkenborg is an American non-fiction author and newspaper editor.
Known for:
Several Short Sentences About Writing (2012)
The rural life (2003)
The Last Fine Time (1991)
Timothy, or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (2006)
Making hay (1986)
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