(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Home Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Aesthetic Copy Share Image
When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Autonomy Copy Share Image
Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Demoralized Copy Share Image
A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Agriculture Copy Share Image
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves?… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Adam Copy Share Image
“How these humans dispose themselves! Unlike anything else in creation. Or rather like everything else in creation all at once. Legs of… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Nature of man Copy Share Image
Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Assumption Copy Share Image
Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned. — Verlyn Klinkenborg Asks Copy Share Image
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. — Verlyn Klinkenborg Books Copy Share Image
The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. — Verlyn Klinkenborg Breaths Copy Share Image
Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Diminish Copy Share Image
A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain, — Verlyn Klinkenborg Brain Copy Share Image
