Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time. — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to other of the highest and best feelings to which mankind has risen." It seems to me that, regarding agrarian art, the farther it moves away from the natural world, especially when the main goal is money profits, the… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share
A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
“The joy of the open fireplace is playing with fire without being accused of playing with fire.” — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
