[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without...
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Daniel Quinn
This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat."" It IS holy work, in Taker culture. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The more competitors...
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Daniel Quinn
Only a very foolish person would think that specialized knowledge is important in everything apart from agriculture and farming
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Sunday Adelaja
It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as the potential heir of a cultural birthright, whereas a practical education has the nature of a commodity to be exchanged for position, status,...
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Wendell Berry
Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door! They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more. Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest; The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
More Quotes By Douglas Jerrold
Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
