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“In Kildonan there is today a shadow, a chill of which any sensitive mind would, I am convinced, be vaguely aware, though possessing no knowledge of the clearances. We are affected strangely by any place from which the tide of life has ebbed.”

Book:Landscape and Light: Essays by Neil M. Gunn

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“that this dying landscape belongs to the dead, the crofters and fighters and fishermen whose larochs sink into the bracken by Loch Assynt and Loch Crochach? - to men trampled under the hoofs of sheep and driven by deer to the ends of the earth - to men whose loyalty was so great it accepted their own betrayal by their own chiefs and whose descendants now are kept in their place by English businessmen and the indifference of a remote and ignorant government.”

Landscape Sheep Highland Clearances Businessmen Assynt Crofters Red Deer Bracken

Book:Between Mountain and Sea: Poems from Assynt

Source: Between Mountain and Sea: Poems from Assynt

“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.”

Economics Dystopia Landowners

Book:Mind Over Ship

Source: Mind Over Ship

“What violent, good luck you had. When you bought your home you received stolen property, but the blood had dried, the war forgotten, and it seemed your god himself had granted you this land.”

War History Historical Colonialism American History Vengeance History Quotes Manifest Destiny Oppression Quotes Landowners

Book:American Ghosts

Source: American Ghosts

“...while the troubles sweeping Europe and southern Britain comprised liberal and radical elements protesting against powerful elites to secure better rights, in Badenoch it was the opposite - a subtle exercise of power by a small but influential outsider elite seeking to sweep aside the long-established rights of the lower orders, whose mere presence disrupted their leisure pursuits. There was, of course, a measure of protest, but the scattered and impoverished nature of local communities rendered them powerless. Land-owners knew well enough which side their bread was buttered on - a trend that became increasingly evident over the next two decades.”

Shooting Elites 19th Century Landowners Badenoch Sporting Estates Leisure Class

Book:'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800 - 1863

Source: 'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800 - 1863

“The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes. He could see the structures of them through their skin. The bony residue of their lives.”

Ireland Potato Famine

Book:TransAtlantic

Source: TransAtlantic

“They entered the wild country. Broken fences. Ruined castles. Stretches of bogland. Wooded headlands. Turfsmoke rose from cabins, thin and mean. On the muddy paths, they glimpsed moving rags. The rags seemed more animate than the bodies within. As they passed, the families regarded them. The children appeared marooned with hunger.”

Ireland Potato Famine

Book:TransAtlantic

Source: TransAtlantic

“Revolutions occurred in almost every European city with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The occasion for the revolutions was hunger.”

Revolution Hunger Communism Karl Marx Potato Famine

Book:The Communist Manifesto

Source: The Communist Manifesto

“The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread.”

Irish History Potato Famine Irish Famine

Book:F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

Source: F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“Making meditation a practical way of life will bear great fruit of success, good health, abundance and spiritual fulfillment.”

Wisdom Success Meditation Fulfillment Abundance Self Mastery Good Health Practical Spirituality

Book:Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely

Source: Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely

“Het Batmangevoel' is een betere tekst dan de bovenstaande samengevatte onderdelen doen vermoeden. De tekst zit onder meer vol details en verwoordingen die de verhalen over de scharensliep, de schoenmaker, de buurman, Batman en de dichter onderling verbinden.”

Satire Poëzie Kritiek

Book:Verwondingen

Source: Verwondingen

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