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Janisse Ray
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in Baxley, Georgia, The United States
February 02, 1962
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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1999
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The Woods of Fannin County
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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2012
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Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home
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2003
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
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2011
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Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
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2021
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
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2005
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Craft and Current: A Manual for Magical Writing
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A House of Branches
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Moody Forest
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2007
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Do Not Weep, the Cranes Seem to Say
Yesterday, I stood beneath a clear, sun-filled sky and watched strings of sandhill cranes journeying northward. I stood beside my old friend Leeann Culbreath, who this week will also be journeying northward.
This would be our last visit for a while. An Episcopal priest, Mother Leeann has been called to a church in Wyoming, after a couple of decades living in Tifton, Georgia, two hours from me. She’
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"I thought this was going to be a personal/philosophical reflection on the need for generosity. The intro made me hopeful. Lots of discussion of genetics and the survival instinct, short term and long term feed back looks, and the idea that survival o"
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"Interesting, although I could have done without the continuous globe-trotting travelogue segues throughout the book. Those parts detracted from the book in my reading of it. Gems though like this one: "Places come to exist in our imaginations because"
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"The description of this book led me to believe that it was a history of mans inclination towards generosity as a survival skill, as opposed to selfishness. Instead, it seemed to be a memoir of the authors early life as a rancher and later as a world "
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“I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“The assumption is that hope is a prerequisite for action. Without hope one becomes depressed and then unable to act.
I want to stress that I do not act because I have hope. I act whether I have hope or not. It is useless to rely on hope as motivation to do what's necessary and just and right. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about love as motivation to act?
I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.
We are going to have to fall in love with place again and learn to stay put.”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
I want to stress that I do not act because I have hope. I act whether I have hope or not. It is useless to rely on hope as motivation to do what's necessary and just and right. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about love as motivation to act?
I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.
We are going to have to fall in love with place again and learn to stay put.”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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“Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.”
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“Now I lay me down to sleep. I pay the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pay the Lord my soul to take.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“The moral of the story, Son," Pun would say, "is Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off on your heels."
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“Are you going to farmer up or just lie there and bleed?”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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Can't wait to get my hands (and eyes and heart) on Moody Forest! Meanwhile, keep warm this chilly day.
