Farming

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. 

~ Edward Dahlberg 

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I think that writing and farming are really the same thing, as Edward Dahlberg alludes in the above quote.   Both involve solitude with time for reflection, patience, a willingness to allow things to grow, riding a tractor, and storing things in a silo.  

Also, if you rearrange the word "farmers" you can get the word "framers."  And what were the "framers" of our Constitution?  That's right.  They were writers.  Think THAT'S a coincidence?  I daresay not.