Vermont – Quotes

I had A Lover’s

I had A Lover’s Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You. Eva Gabor

The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one’s own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it’s more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that … Read more

Black bears, though, are

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn’t afraid of him. I felt a hunter’s exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. Edward Hoagland

Vermont is a small

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference. Fred Rogers

I was always into

I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing ‘Sin City’. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights. Frank Miller

I moved to New

I moved to New York and was told, \”Go back home. We don’t need you. Go pump gas. You’re from Vermont. We’ve got no use for you. You’re not drawing guys in tights.\” So, I learned how to draw guys in tights, and I put them in as many crime situations as I could. Frank … Read more

I learned this [

I learned this [ that fear doesn’t have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy – all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I’d spent a decade building my dream, and then it started … Read more

Vermont tradition is based

Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. … Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by … Read more

Vermont is the only

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect. Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Compared with more emotional

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living. Dorothy Canfield Fisher