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title: "1 Unexpected Stalks Quotes By Verlyn Klinkenborg"
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> [The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/the-unexpected-stalks-a-farm-in-big-boots-like-a-vagrant-bent-on/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

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## More by Verlyn Klinkenborg

> [(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/home-is-a-place-we-carry-inside-ourselves-a-place-where-we-welcome/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/the-unexpected-stalks-a-farm-in-big-boots-like-a-vagrant-bent-on/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/when-i-say-the-grace-of-wildness-what-i-mean-is-its-autonomy-its-self/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/research-in-nature-s-laboratory-never-stops-it-explores-every/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/a-reasonable-agriculture-would-do-its-best-to-emulate-nature-rather/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/i-look-at-the-books-on-my-library-shelves-they-certainly-seem-dormant/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [“How these humans dispose themselves! Unlike anything else in creation. Or rather like everything else in creation all at once. Legs of one beast.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/how-these-humans-dispose-themselves-unlike-anything-else-in-creation/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/nearly-everyone-is-aware-of-dramatic-changes-in-the-world-yet-we/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/other-seasons-come-abruptly-but-ask-so-little-when-they-do-winter-is/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/flow-is-something-the-reader-experiences-not-the-writer/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/the-words-are-not-mere-words-they-are-the-breath-and-mind-perhaps/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/solve-global-warming-eliminate-the-nuclear-threat-and-we-will-still/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

> [A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/verlyn-klinkenborg/a-clich-is-dead-matter-it-causes-gangrene-in-the-prose-around-it-and/)

[Verlyn Klinkenborg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/verlyn-klinkenborg/)

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