Eric Sloane

A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air.

Booker T. Washinton

"No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

Dorothy Sayers

"A society in Which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded upon waste and trash, and such a society is a house built on sand".

I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew
He moved my soul to seek Him, seeking me.
It was not I that found, O Saviour true,
No, I was found of Thee.

Thou didst reach forth thy hand and mine enfold;
I walked and sank not on the storm-vexed-sea,-
'Twas not so much that I on thee took hold,
As thou, dear Lord on me.

I find, I walk, I love, but, O the whole
Of love is but my answer, Lord, to Thee;
For thou wert long beforehand with my soul,
Always thou lovedst me.

Thoreau

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Leo Tolstoy

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

A performance by the Horsemen Gospel Quartet during the End Times Bible Conference was cut short when 300 dispensationalists in the audience interpreted it as a sign of the Apocalypse and ran screaming for their lives.

Eric Sloane

Perhaps one of the greatest changes in American building and farming philosophy has been the abandonment of the enthusiasm for permanence.

Randall Jarrell

Soon we shall now everything that the 18th century did not know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.