| | From "Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer"Don't worry and fret about the crops. After you have done all
you can for them, let them stand in the weather on their own.
If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his
throat every time it hailed.
But the real products of any year's work are the farmer's mind
and the cropland itself.
If he raises a good crop at the cost of belittling himself and di-
minishing the ground, he has gained nothing. He will have to
begin over again the next spring, worse off than before.
Let him receive the season's increment into his mind. Let him
work it into the soil.
The finest growth that farmland can produce is a careful farmer.
Make the human race a better head. Make the world a better
piece of ground.
--From "Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer," Wendell Berry
St. Isidore the Farmer
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| | Posted 1/9/2008 2:36 PM - 3 comments
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