Gene Logsdon quotes

“I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.”
-- Gene Logsdon

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“Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.”
-- Gene Logsdon

Source : Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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“Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.”
-- Gene Logsdon

Source : Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.44, Chelsea Green Publishing

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“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?”
-- Gene Logsdon

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

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“Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.”
-- Gene Logsdon

Source : Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.133, Chelsea Green Publishing

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“A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.”
-- Gene Logsdon

Source : Gene Logsdon (2012). “A Sanctuary of Trees: Beechnuts, Birdsongs, Baseball Bats, and Benedictions”, p.28, Chelsea Green Publishing

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“I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.”
-- Gene Logsdon

#Horse Quotes #Winter Quotes #Trying Quotes

“When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.”
-- Gene Logsdon

Source : "Good Spirits". Book by Gene Logsdon, 1999.

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“I can make more generals, but horses cost money.”

“I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.”

Source : "'I Was Never an Anti-Semite'". articles.latimes.com. March 01, 2000.

“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”

Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”

“Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.”

“As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.”

“Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.”

“The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.”

“Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.”

Source : "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

“If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.”

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

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