Stanley Crawford Quotes:

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

source: - Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

Topics: Winter, Thinking, Luxury, Cold Days, Winter Cold

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

source: - Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, UNM Press

Topics: Dream, Garden, Independence

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

Topics: Blood, Water, Next, Respectful Relationships

Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.

source: - Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.86, UNM Press

Topics: Thinking, Play, Bird, Magpies, Oblivious

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

source: - Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.8, UNM Press

Topics: Darkness, Earth, Soil

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.

Topics: Reading, Writing