Sustainable Agriculture And Organic Farming In Northern Thailand, Mae Tha, Chiang Mai ... Ek-ii-aek-aekkk…the Thai language call of the roosters aroused me from my warm, comfortable mattress. I can glimpse the sun beams seeping through the walls and under the wooden door...
[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, “We are one in the Father: we will go back.” The northern races said, “We are one in Christ, we will go on.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
... in northern Ireland, if you don’t have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)
I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous ... as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)