My Empire of Dirt Quotes

“We can commit ourselves fully to anything—a discipline, a life’s work, a child, a family, a community, a faith, a friend—only with a poverty of knowledge, an ignorance of result, self-subordination, and a final forsaking of other possibilities. If we must make these so final commitments without sufficient information, then what can inform our decisions?”
― Manny Howard, My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm

“More dangerously, our practiced whimsy, our ability to cast aside the objects of our desire we impulsively collect, extends to metaphysical yearning as well. The whole culture, a country populated by people, like magpies, on the hunt for the next shiny alternative to whatever it is that occupies their sweaty grip at present.”
― Manny Howard, My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big-City Backyard into a Farm