"Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?"

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Source : Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.53, Chelsea Green Publishing

Gene Logsdon

#Country Quotes #Angel Quotes #Church Quotes

“Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.”
“Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?”
“Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.”
“I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.”
“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.”
“I like to explore things.”
“The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.”

Source : Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”
“The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.”

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