Carolina QuotesA farmer is separated from a farmer By what farmers have in common: forests, Those dark things — what the fields were to begin with. At night a fox comes out of the forest, eats his chickens. At night the deer come out of the forest, eat his crops.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"Field and Forest," lines 11-15
- work
- The Lost World (1965)
- year
- 1965
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“A farmer is separated from a farmer By what farmers have in …” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-120B33542D. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/120b33542d
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