Quotes from Stanley Crawford

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

So that where I once did not know who or what you were, now I wonder who I or we are, or what. What planet is this anyway, my dear?

Often he vanished for days down the spiral staircase into the engine-room to overhaul the weary machinery, leaving me with a curt note tacked to his then-favourite aspen, the Aspen Laura-Anne, a white-limbed thing with noisy leaves: 'A due-south drift, please, love, for a day or two, n'est-ce pas?

So what about you?  I would conclude. What about your life?  Is it organically lived?  Here I might pause to summon up the courage to bring up the forbidden subject. And if I may ask, what about the money you would offer to pay me with? Is it organically  earned?  In short, how have you managed to solve these problems in your life? Have you actually figured out how to live a clean life in a dirty age?  

All human livings in industrial society are ultimately based on agricultural production and mineral extraction. One of the ways these processes are transferred upward and outward is through endless cycles of buying and selling. Which is to say that one cannot live in this kind of world without being involved in these cycles, nearly or remotely.

Winter is a time of promise because there is so little to do — or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.