The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and … and earns. It’s a thing he can’t have when he’s… — Theodore Sturgeon

There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Here, too, was the guide, the beacon, for such times as humanity might be in danger; here was the Guardian of Whom all humans knew — not an exterior force, nor an awesome Watcher in the sky, but a laughing thing with a human heart and a reverence for its human origins, smelling of sweat and new-turned earth rather than suffused with the pale odor of sanctity.