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“I draw inspiration and energy from trying to make my little part of the world a better, healthier, more beautiful, and more sustainable place.”
― Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
― Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
“For me, food quality isn’t a question of organic versus conventional, or no-till versus digging-in, or heirloom versus hybrid. It’s a question of what I want to grow, and what I should do to help each seed or plant become the best vegetable it can possibly be.”
― Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening: Rare Varieties * Unusual Options * Plant Lore & Guidance
― Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening: Rare Varieties * Unusual Options * Plant Lore & Guidance
“... I do think there’s no better way to enrich your life than learning about the way things used to be and weaving into your daily routine at least a few time-honored practices and traditions whose simplicity and charm nourish the mind, body, and spirit.”
― Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
― Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
“It [this book] celebrates simplifying, slowing down, working with your hands, making more, buying less, valuing quality over quantity, living frugally, self-sufficiently, and harmoniously with the natural world.”
― Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
― Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
“Nobody in the world welcomes us quite like our parents do. The reception, if we're lucky, is a simultaneous cosseting and taking for granted. An experience that's, at best, comforting and exasperating in equal measure, unique in its loaded history of give andtake, its private parameters of permission and expection.”
― Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity
― Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity
Patch405’s 2024 Year in Books
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