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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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

— 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,…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain,

— Verlyn Klinkenborg