
“For about a month now we have had solid cold—firm, business-like cold that stalked in and took charge of the countryside as a brisk housewife might take charge of someone else’s kitchen in an emergency.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Cold Weather,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 346.
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category: cold, country, winter
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in January 1943.
“After some years in the country, during which time I have experienced the satisfactions of working the land, building the soil, and making brown into green, I am beginning to believe that our new world which will open up after the war should be constructed round a repopulated rural America, so that a reasonably large proportion of the population shall participate in the culture of the earth.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “A Week in November,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 334.
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category: brown, country, earth, farm, green, land, rural, soil, sustainability
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in November 1942.
“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.”
Susan Hand Shetterly
more infosource: “Country Road,” in Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2010), 124.
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category: beauty, country, health, Maine, mind, nature, nourishment, preservation, road, rural
medium: nonfiction


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