Country People Do Not Behave As If

No Birdcall Is The Musical Equal Of A Clarinet Blown With Panache.

Country People Do Not Behave As If They Think Life Is Short; They Live On The Principle That It Is Long, And Savor Variations Of The Kind Best Appreciated If Most Days Are The Same.

Summer Is When We Believe, All Of A Sudden, That If We Just Walked Out The Back Door And Kept On Going Long Enough And Far Enough We Would Reach The Rocky Mountains.

There Often Seems To Be A Playfulness To Wise People, As If Either Their Equanimity Has As Its Source This Playfulness Or The Playfulness Flows From Equanimity; And They Can Persuade Other People Who Are In A State Of Agitation To Calm Down And Smile.

In Order To Really Enjoy A Dog, One Doesn't Merely Try To Train Him To Be Semi-human. The Point Of It Is To Open Oneself To The Possibility Of Becoming Partly A Dog.