It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.


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EARLE BROWN
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I...
STEVE EARLE
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar p...
STEVE EARLE
If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.
BILL EARLE
In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live ...
STEVE EARLE
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In...
STEVE EARLE
I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it...
SYLVIA EARLE
Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increas...
SYLVIA EARLE
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the ...
SYLVIA EARLE
We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
SYLVIA EARLE
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? B...
SYLVIA EARLE
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructi...
SYLVIA EARLE
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your...
STEVE EARLE
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as ...
STEVE EARLE
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is so...
STEVE EARLE
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
STEVE EARLE
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy...
SYLVIA EARLE
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matte...
SYLVIA EARLE
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of...
SYLVIA EARLE
For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist e...
SYLVIA EARLE
'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links...
SYLVIA EARLE
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send in...
SYLVIA EARLE
The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a cha...
SYLVIA EARLE
For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what ...
SYLVIA EARLE
We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are lim...
SYLVIA EARLE
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy ...
STEVE EARLE
The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million ga...
SYLVIA EARLE
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that ar...
STEVE EARLE
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss...
SYLVIA EARLE
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some kri...
SYLVIA EARLE
Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. ...
SYLVIA EARLE
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we c...
SYLVIA EARLE
I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, b...
SYLVIA EARLE
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, ...
SYLVIA EARLE
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.
SYLVIA EARLE
My mother was known as the 'bird lady' of the neighborhood. Anything injured, or any unusual...
SYLVIA EARLE
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value enc...
SYLVIA EARLE