7 Quotes by Stanley Crawford

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.

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.

There is always something rough and tumble about planting – because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn’t I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can’t write, one shouldn’t write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.

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?