"The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary."

-- E. L. Konigsburg

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“I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.”
“Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.”
“We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.”
“At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible . Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.”
“What Iâ€™m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesnâ€™t throw anything at us that it knows we canâ€™t handleâ€”and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.”
“With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.”
“Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.”
“One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.”

Source : Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

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