From Hoofbeats to Dogsteps: A Life of Listening to and Learning from Animals by Rachel Page Elliott

Author:Rachel Page Elliott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing

The farm is at the bottom of this photo. Our land extends to the Concord River.

Views of River Road Farm, summer and winter.

Over the years on the Farm there were times when we felt “land rich and cash poor.” The sacrifices were made easier by our love of the land. The following essay describes perfectly how my family, and probably many others, feels about owning land.

I am real estate

I am the basis of all wealth, the heritage of the wise, the thrifty and prudent. I am the poor man’s joy and comfort, the rich man’s prize, the right hand of capital, the silent partner of many thousands of successful men. I am the solace of the widow, the comfort of old age, the cornerstone of security against misfortune and want. I am handed down to children, through generations, as a thing of the greatest worth. I am the choicest fruit of toil. Credit respects me, yet I am humble. I stand before every man bidding him know me for what I am and possess me. I grow and increase in value through countless days. Though I seem dormant, my worth increases never failing, never ceasing; time is my aid and population heaps up my gain. Fire and the elements I defy, for they cannot destroy me. My possessors learn to believe in me; invariably they become envied. While all things wither and decay, I survive. The centuries find me younger, increasing in strength. The thriftless speak ill of me. The charlatans of finance attack me. I am trustworthy. I am sound. Unfailing I triumph and detractors are disapproved. Minerals and oils come from me. I am producer of food, the basis for ships and factories, the foundation of banks. Yet I am so common that thousands unthinking and unknowingly, pass me by. I am real estate.

—Anonymous

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