(b. 1942– )
U.S. author
Susan Hand Shetterly
Beauty is worth saving. An impractical, beautiful dirt road with a shading canopy can nourish a person’s mind and spirit, and people who are fed by the lovely aspects around them enrich the life of any town.
“Country Road,” in Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010), 124.
What will happen to us when our children have no connection with what is wild in the land, its depth, danger, generosity? What will life be like for children who do not grow up paying close attention to it and testing themselves against it? And what will happen to those children who ache for it, as I did, but cannot find it anywhere?
“Going Back to the Land,” in Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010), 15.
Nowhere—not on these marshes or in the coves or out along the mudflats—is it a good idea to trivialize the power of the water.
“Country Road,” in Settled in the Wild (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010), 40.