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“This little patch of earth and this little pile of stones I can wash the dust from off my face and skin But this earth is in my bones”

Littles I Can Earth Faces Land Stones Skins Bones Dust Patches

Author:Ralph McTell

“The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed.”

Years Next Interest Pay Sun Sky Land Wind Taxes Summer Credit Seeds Dust Yellow Agony Again And Again Harvest Crops Bankers Next Year No Money Barren Prairie Scorching

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“The plough of Time breaks up our Eden-land, And tramples down its fruitful flowery prime. Yet thro' the dust of ages living shoots O' the old immortal seed start in the furrows; And, where Love looked on with glorious eye, These quicken'd germs of everlastingness Flower lusty, as of old in Paradise!”

Love Eye Age Break Land Flower Seeds Dust Paradise Glorious Immortal Prime Eden Germs

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume

“And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.”

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.”

Ifs Country Might Water Magic Week Land Scales Dust Finding Yourself Thick Shelves Wages Snakes Pouring Ponds Sticky Tenacious Chalk Kettles Slime Plasters Teapots Hissing

Book:Spindle's End

Source: Spindle's End

“A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.”

Men Left Water Cutting Progress Tree Land Dust Indian Grass Bob Wire Pioneers Upside Down

Author:Charles Marion Russell

“Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?”

Source: Revolution