“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
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“A heavy rain is good for the fields and bad for the roads.”
Proverb
more infosource: 1001 Yiddish Proverbs, by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 26.
category: field, perspective, proverb, rain, road, Yiddish proverbs
medium: proverb
notes: Yiddish translation: A smagler regen iz gut far di felder un shlecht far di vegen.
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