Famous quotes containing the words fields and/or farm:
“For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,modern town,land of ruts,trivial and worn,not too sacred,with no holy sepulchre, but profane green fields and dusty roads, and opportunity to live as holy a life as you can, where the sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“On the farm I had learned how to meet realities without suffering either mentally or physically. My initiative had never been blunted. I had freedom to succeedfreedom to fail. Life on the farm produces a kind of toughness.”
—Bertha Van Hoosen (18631952)
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