"A border collie named Orson inspired me to……" — Jon Katz
"A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep."
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20 Quotes by Jon Katz
Jon Katz has 20 quotes on this site.
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Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with…
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If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them.…
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Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
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Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as…
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It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or…
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I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them…
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We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that…
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The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments…
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It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love…
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My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life.…
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When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them.…
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When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about…
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More Acre Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and…
— Samuel Beckett
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
— George A. Sheehan
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
— Jean de Joinville
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
— Red Auerbach
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives…
— Orison Swett Marden
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It…
— Thomas Jefferson
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An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far…
— Denis Hayes
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Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
— William Shakespeare
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There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield…
— Henry Ford
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I was in Australia....Lotta leg room down under. Apartments: dollar a month. 2000-acre den....think of the parties.
— Bill Hicks
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All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
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