#co

Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #food

Wait!" he yelled. I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the hood of his car. I almost stopped. Maybe I would have if he'd followed me. But he didn't. He got in his car and he left, just like he said he would. ↗

— Jenny Han

#conrad #jerk #breakups

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living. ↗

— Harold Budd

#america #could #get #going #had

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclinations. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things that are commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#philosophy #run-on-sentence-award #equality

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once? ↗

— Bill Willingham

#fantasy-fiction #unwritten-preface #fantasy-fiction

The wind and the sea and the storm were his domain and I wanted nothing to do with them any longer. I just wanted Cain. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#fantasy-romance #mythical-romance #new-adult-romance #paranormal-romance #new-adult

Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem... ↗

— P.W. Creighton

#new-adult #nightfall #paranormal #paranormal-romance #paranormal-suspense

She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#reading #louisa-may-alcott

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo #law-of-contraries #secret #sisters #louisa-may-alcott

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#freedom #libertarianism #liberty #freedom