the land5 quotes
Earth, soil, and working it.
Related themes: work · death & mortality · progress · Texas & the West · tradition & conservatism
“I have been raised in the country all my life. I love dearly to feel the wind on my face, to see the sunrise, to see the moon in the night. I have no intention of spending any of my days in a concrete box.”
“Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel/
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land./
Well, they dug for their coal ’til the land was forsaken/
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.”
“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
“Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.”
“Factory work’s easier on the back, and I don’t mind it, understand, but a man becomes what he does. Got to watch that. That’s why I keep at farmin’, although the crops haven’t ever throve. It’s the doin’ that’s important.”