“I knew a man who, in the age of chainsaw, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.”
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | Feminism, the Body, and the Machine p.80
“The body characterizes everything it touches. What it makes it traces over with the marks of its pulses and breathings, its excitements, hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. On its good work, it leaves the marks of skill, care, and love persisting through hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. And to those of us who love and honor the life of the body in this world, these marks are precious things, necessities of life.”
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | Feminism, the Body, and the Machine p.78
“All good human work remembers its history.”
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | Feminism, the Body, and the Machine p.77
‘[W]e are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.”
– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | Feminism, the Body, and the Machine p.73
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