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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.

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, Winter, Trying

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

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

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

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

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

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

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
Discovery, Aqua, Water Of Life
"Good Spirits". Book by Gene Logsdon, 1999.

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