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Stanley Crawford Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Stanley Crawford
Reading, Writing

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

Stanley Crawford
Rain, Blood, Rivers

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.

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

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