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"One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life." (366) "before I met any of it's animals, I get down on my belly in this very charismatic species his farm was nurturing that, in turn, were nurturing his farm" (207).

"We think of the grasses as the basis of this food chain, yet behind, or beneath, the grassland stands the soil, that inconceivably complex community of the living ad the dead." (208)

"It's all connected. This farm is more like an organism than a machine, and like any organism it has its proper scale. A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well." (213)

"Grass farming done well depends almost entirely on a wealth of nuanced local knowledge at a time when most of the rest of agriculture has come to rely on precisely the opposite: on the off-farm brain, and the one-size-fits-all universal intelligence represented by agrochemicals and machines." (191)