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Louis Bromfield was an American author born on December 27, 1896, and died on March 18, 1956. He is known for his profound portrayals of rural American life and his commitment to environmental conservation.

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“One got a savor out of life by casting overboard all the little rules which clutter up existence.”

Truth Freedom Class Society Loneliness

Book:Early Autumn

Source: Early Autumn

“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”

Men Ends Earth Animal Cutting Tree Rocks Destruction Environmental Streams Formulas Agriculture Nature Of Man Negation Short Cuts Panacea

Author:Louis Bromfield

“It is the duty of every citizen, for his own welfare, if for no other patriotic reason, to support and fight for and possibly initiate measures having to do with conservation of soil, water and forests.”

Ifs Reason Fighting Water Support Duty Citizens Forests Welfare Soil Patriotic Conservation Initiate

Author:Louis Bromfield

“This other war, the war upon destruction of natural assets is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast war is largely ignorance, that most of our citizens do not realize what is going on under their very feet.”

War Realizing Natural Feet Ignorance Citizens Weakness Destruction Finished Assets

Author:Louis Bromfield

“It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.”

Long Book Sea Mountain Quitting Burning Afternoon Long Ago Palaces August Pavement Chilly

Author:Louis Bromfield

“She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.”

Made Taken Fate Fine Awful Firm Forgiven

Book:A Bromfield Galaxy

Source: A Bromfield Galaxy

“...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”

Littles Long Humanity Levels Loneliness Ordinary Rose Curse Long Ago

Book:The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .

Source: The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .

“As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.”

Humans Environment Soil Vitality Human Health

Book:A Few Brass Tacks

Source: A Few Brass Tacks

“Whether we fail or not, we shall not be kept from continuing our mission by those who claim it can't be done. ...Indeed the whole of agricultural and livestock science and even human medicine, if sound, is merely the business of discovering certain natural patterns already in existence, putting together the various pieces and discovering their relationship to the whole universe; indeed such a process is science itself”

Ifs Humans Done Whole Together Certain Universe Process Sound Natural Existence Environment Pieces Failing Claims Medicine Patterns Various Missions Discovering Continuing Livestock

Author:Louis Bromfield

“Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.”

People House Happened Personality

Book:It Takes All Kinds

Source: It Takes All Kinds

“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.”

Country Food Kings Tables Cooking Court Bread Meat Culinary Surround Vegetables Soup Salad

Author:Louis Bromfield

“If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.”

Ifs Knows World Wells Problem Given Land Consideration Distribution

Book:OUT OF THE EARTH

Source: OUT OF THE EARTH

“There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.”

Light Certain Process Awareness Sorrow Shadow Satisfaction Rhythm Contrast Variation Richness Captured Discontent Light And Shadow

Author:Louis Bromfield

About the Author

Born: December 27, 1896
Died: March 18, 1956
Known for: Author
Quotes: 13

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