The Way We Eat...

Photo: Lydia Stewart

"The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world."
-Michael Pollan

I Am Rich…

"I am not heartsick because I am rich and they are poor."
"We're not rich, Papa. We're..."
"Yes we are boy. We have one another to tend to, and this land to tend. And one day we'll own it outright. We have Solomon here to wind up a capstan and help us haul our burdens. (...) We have Daisy's hot milk. We got rain to wash up with, to get the grime off us. We can look at sundown and see it all, so that it wets the eye and hastens the heart. We hear all the music that's in the wind, so much music that it itches my feet to start tapping. Just like a fiddle."

-Robert Newton Peck, “A Day No Pigs Would Die”

Autumn...

The Summer was over at last, and nobody could deny that Autumn was definitely there. It was that rather sad time of year when for the first time for many months the fine old sun still blazes away in a cloudless sky, but does not warm you, and the hoar-frosts and the mists and winds begin to stir their faint limbs at morning and evening, with the gossamer, as the sap of winter vigor remembers itself in the cold corpses which brave summer slew. The leaves were still in the trees, and still green, but it was the leaden green of old leaves which have seen much since the gay colors and happiness of spring – that seems so lately and, like all happy things, so quickly to have passed.

T.H. White, "Sword and the Stone"

The Country...

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

If you think the country is quiet, you've never lived in it. Tree frogs alone make you wish for earplugs.

-Sue Monk Kidd, from "The Secret Life of Bees"

The Nature to Nurture...

"Satan is always attempting to undermine the most precious element of a woman's divine nature—the nature to nurture."A mother-daughter relationship is where a daughter learns how to nurture by being nurtured. She is loved. She is taught and experiences firsthand what it feels like to have someone care about her enough to correct her while continuing to encourage and believe in her at the same time."

M. Russell Ballard

Nature

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

"To walk in nature is always good medicine."

-Jean Craighead George, "On the Far Side of the Mountain