Jan 29, 2020 | Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship, we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation.” Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land “Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the...
Jan 15, 2020 | Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve.” Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance In this post I want briefly to examine the meaning of stewardship. In two following posts I will examine more specifically how stewardship pertains to...
Oct 30, 2019 | Natural Steward, Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“Art imitates nature.” Aristotle This growing season was dry. A number of trees, not to mention my garden, suffered. Upon seeing them losing leaves in early September, I asked my local state forester to look at my trees, both ornamental and native. His suggestion?...
Oct 23, 2019 | Wednesday Quotes
“All these things are interconnected.” Xenophon, The Estate Manager This is one of my all-time favorite quotations. It speaks to so many things. The original context in Xenophon is Ischomachus reporting how he would put his horse through its paces while riding over...
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