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Gene Everlasting : A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever by Gene Logsdon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Author Gene Logsdon--whom Wendell Berry once called "the most experienced and best observer of agriculture we have"--has a notion: That it is a little easier for gardeners and farmers to accept death than the rest of the populace. Why? Because every day, farmers and gardeners help plants and animals begin life __and__ help plants and animals end life. They are intimately attuned to the food chain. They understand how all living things are seated around a dining table, eating while being eaten. They realize that all of nature is in flux. __Gene Everlasting__ contains Logsdon's reflections, by turns both humorous and heart-wrenching, on nature, death, and eternity, all from a contrary farmer's perspective. He recounts joys and tragedies from his childhood in the 1930s and '40s spent on an Ohio farm, through adulthood and child-raising, all the way up to his recent bout with cancer, always with an eye toward the lessons that farming has taught him about life and its mysteries. Whether his subject is parsnips, pigweed, immortality, irises, green burial, buzzards, or compound interest, Logsdon generously applies as much heart and wit to his words as he does care and expertise to his fie

Who reads Gene Everlasting : A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever?

Author

Gene Logsdon

Publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing Company

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781603585408

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Memoir, Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14