“He’s such a generous spirit, you’d be embarrassed to behave in a small way around him.”
Tobias Wolff
more infosource: describing writer George Saunders, in “George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year,” by Joel Lovell, New York Times Magazine, January 3, 2013.
category: generosity, goodness, integrity
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“The land, even though it has been mistreated, can still support the population—that we know. The question is whether the population has the temperament and the ingenuity to support the land—that is, to return its goodness, not just sap it.”
E. B. White
more infosource: “Farm Paper,” in One Man’s Meat (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1944), 145.
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category: farm, give back, goodness, land, population, sustainability
medium: essay
notes: White wrote this essay in February 1940.
“It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time, waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out.”
E. B. White
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