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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Page 65
... miles it flows toward every point of the compass . If it were a crow instead of a stream , the Ohio would cover the distance between Pittsburgh and Cairo in only half as many miles . The other half it spends meandering . In cutting ...
... miles it flows toward every point of the compass . If it were a crow instead of a stream , the Ohio would cover the distance between Pittsburgh and Cairo in only half as many miles . The other half it spends meandering . In cutting ...
Page 86
... miles , and miles , and miles , these solitudes are unbroken by any sign of human life or trace of human footstep ; nor is anything seen to move about them but the blue jay , whose color is so bright , and yet so delicate , that it ...
... miles , and miles , and miles , these solitudes are unbroken by any sign of human life or trace of human footstep ; nor is anything seen to move about them but the blue jay , whose color is so bright , and yet so delicate , that it ...
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... miles downriver from Sivvy's farm where the draft horses hauled barrels filled with maple sap , two blacktop roads , broken by frost and mended with tar , running from nowhere to nowhere , cross at right angles in the rumpled farm ...
... miles downriver from Sivvy's farm where the draft horses hauled barrels filled with maple sap , two blacktop roads , broken by frost and mended with tar , running from nowhere to nowhere , cross at right angles in the rumpled farm ...
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