The Rural Life Quotes

“(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.”
― Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life

“A clean barnyard is its own reward, and the way the pigs exult at feeding time is itself a source of exultation. But there’s still no chore as pleasing as gathering eggs.”
― Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life

“And beyond the literal landscape—the one that has been tilled and planted or logged or fenced or simply let alone—there is the ideal landscape that lives only in the mind. Every day you explore the difference between the two, knowing that you can see what no one else can.”
― Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life

“Then I remember it’s January, a month when only the potatoes are optimistic about warmer weather.”
― Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life