Wise Words For The Good Life »

Helen Nearing and her husband, Scott, were homesteader-heroes to 1960s counter-culturalists seeking simplicity and frugality in what is called "intentional living." First published by Schocken Books in 1980, this collection of Nearing's cherished quotes on the "good life" from the likes of Horace, Virgil, Spenser, Thoreau, Jefferson and numerous less-luminous others, is organized into themes such as the rewards of country living, weather and seasons, money and true wealth, the woman's place, the male point of view, and the evening of life. An anonymous sample: "Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting, with strife." Quoted material is not fully cited. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR