Twenty pounds of tomatoes will cook down into a pot of tomato sauce that fits into five one-quart freezer boxes, good for one family meal each. (Be warned, the fragrance of your kitchen will cause inn...
To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
To hear you tell it, you'd think man was only put on this earth to keep urinals from going to waste.
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
Thomas Jefferson presumed on the basis of colonial experience that farming and democracy are intimately connected. Cultivation of land meets the needs of the farmer, the neighbors, and the community,...
This is all going to scare us to death, she said. You and me. But we’re still going to have to do it.
This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.
They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains.
They are all for the great captain, while he indentures them and eats their souls and property. Somehow he gets them to side against their own.
There seemed to be no end to the things that could be hiding, waiting it out, right where you thought you could see it all.
There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, There now, hang on, you’ll get over it. Sadness is more or less like a head cold—with patience, it passes....
There but for the grace of serotonin go the rest of us.
There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
Their tail feathers ticked like weeds and one of them crowed nonstop, as if impatient. But impatience implies consciousness of time and a chicken is existential. I know that much about birds.
The wounds of this ruptured nation lie open and ugly.
The wonder to me now is that I thought my life worth saving...Desperate to save myself in a river of people saving themselves. And if they chanced to look down and see me struggling underneath them, t...
The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and no place to go.
The view from our garden is spectacular. I thought about people I knew who right at that moment might be plucking chickens, picking strawberries and lettuce, just for us. I felt grateful to the people...
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I...
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.