insights

2501, 2013

Farming vs mining

January 25th, 2013|

farming versus mining as an approach to living. give it some thought.

1401, 2013

Once plants and animals were raised together…

January 14th, 2013|

Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm – which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here; they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

— Wendell Berry

1301, 2013

When I am working on a problem…

January 13th, 2013|

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

— Buckminster Fuller