"To see the world, after all, either through a magnifying glass or a poem, is the first step toward wanting to preserve it."
"Wendell is speculating on the brain of a bird, on what a bird can know."
"'I don't use that word [environment],' Wendell replies. 'It's an abstraction. It separates the organism from its place, and there is no such place.'"
-All of the above are from an article about Wendell Barry by Erick Reece
"Garden & Gun" -the name of the magazine from which the above-mentioned article came...the pairing of such seemingly diametrically opposed nouns for the title of a magazine about "southern" American life was interesting to me. What was really funny was that my mother and sister, neither having any literary training, were the first to comment on, and laugh at, the name of the magazine I was reading in the hospital waiting room, bringing its interest to mind for me.
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