J. D. Landis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The bald eagle, our national bird, was almost eradicated by “the same lust for land and wealth that conquered the country.”—THE BALD EAGLE: THE IMPROBABLE JOURNEY OF AMERICA’S BIRD by Jack E. Davis Conquered (the United States) and, in many ways, ravaged. By greed.

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@DaleEstey Read (again?) THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James.

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“How many children have you? I have 50 books.”— Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight, Moon Discovered in this wonderful piece about her remarkable, brief life (in which she easily managed to write some 100 books) : https://www.newyorker.com/search/q/anna%20holmes

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A little bird says to its mother, "I've flown here, I've flown there, I've flown almost everywhere, but I still can't find this thing you call the air." Inspired by a story told in a new book, ON QUALITY, by Robert M.Pirsig, author of ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE.

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@GiulioCapri Consider it a modest proposal. A la Jonathan Swift. Though one might ask: which part is ridiculous? There will surely be guns on earth when there are no longer human beings on earth.

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@threepeaks74 You're right. I used to carry around a very small edition of THE ART OF WAR but I never actually read it. I do know this from Sun Tzu: “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.”

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"A Florida school has banned 'The Hill We Climb,' the poem Amanda Gorman recited at President Biden's inauguration, saying it would now be off-limits to young readers after one parent claimed the poem was 'indoctrinating' students."--NPR The common "one parent" dictatorship.

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A little bird says to its mother, "I've flown here, I've flown there, I've flown almost everywhere, but I still can't find this thing you call the air." Inspired by a story told in a new book, ON QUALITY, by Robert M.Pirsig, author of ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE.

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"The mob [Hannah Arendt, 1951]...believed that the respectable world was a conspiracy to deny them what they were owed; they were the embodiment of the politics of resentment....the leadership of totalitarian movements come from this group."--Louis Menand, The Free World

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"Fast as F*ck: 101 Easy Recipes to Pack Your Plate: A Vegan Cookbook" by Bad Manners/Michelle Davis The chapter on salads keeps the u: "Freshen the Fuck Up" This is disheartening. What's next for our deteriorating culture: FRAGRANT AS SH*T GARDENING BOOK?