In the vein of Wendell Berry, etc...

In the middle of the violence, Clarence said in an interview that “just plain, pure sentiment” kept them there. He talked about the power of taking a sore and bleeding piece of land and bringing healing to it, about the claim the soil has on lives. He talked about watching seedlings grow into a pine forest, about the bit of ground where they had buried a child and the hill reserved for picnics, about the creek where they had bathed in the summer heat. “People say to you , ‘Why don’t you sell it and move away?’ They might as well ask you, ‘Why don’t you sell your mother?’”