Author: joelwitwer

The good worker will not suppose that good work can be made properly answerable in haste, urgency, or even emergency. But the good worker knows too that after it is done work requires yet more time to prove its worth. One must stay to experience and study and understand the consequences – must understand them by living with them, and then correct them, if necessary, by longer living and more work.

– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | People, Land, and Community p.187

To know nothing is no more possible than to know enough.

– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | People, Land, and Community p.183

[T]he assumption is that we can first set demons at large, and then, somehow, become smart enough to control them. This is not childishness. It is not even “human weakness.” It is a kind of idiocy, but perhaps we will not cope with it and save ourselves until we regain the sense to call it evil.

– Wendell Berry in The Art of the Commonplace | People, Land, and Community p.183