Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World"In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home region is the grounding for global knowledge. "Reflective, rhapsodic, luminous essays. . . . A wise and beautifully written book."-Publishers Weekly, starred review |
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... changed , and then through Edinburgh , Atwater , Deerfield , Palmyra , Paris , Way- land - tiny crossroad settlements where I had played baseball and eaten pie and danced - and these , too , had scarcely changed . Circling , I drew ...
... changed , and then through Edinburgh , Atwater , Deerfield , Palmyra , Paris , Way- land - tiny crossroad settlements where I had played baseball and eaten pie and danced - and these , too , had scarcely changed . Circling , I drew ...
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... changed life inside a single tree for life inside a stack of them . The bark on the walls and the clay in the chinks and the fieldstone in the chimney reminded them whence their shelter had come . Our technology has changed , but not ...
... changed life inside a single tree for life inside a stack of them . The bark on the walls and the clay in the chinks and the fieldstone in the chimney reminded them whence their shelter had come . Our technology has changed , but not ...
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... changed after a quarter of a century . I knew the place had changed , of course , if only be- cause in the years since I had come here last - drawn in those days like a moth to the flame of a girl - the pop- ulation of the earth had ...
... changed after a quarter of a century . I knew the place had changed , of course , if only be- cause in the years since I had come here last - drawn in those days like a moth to the flame of a girl - the pop- ulation of the earth had ...
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