October 9, 2007

Picking up on this earlier post, and this one too, here is the first of Berry’s principles for a good solution: A good solution accepts given limits, using so far as is possible what is at hand. The farther fetched the solution, the less it should be trusted…. Enlarging scale is a deceptive solution; it […]

“It is surely the duty of the older generation to be embarrassingly old-fashioned, for the claims of the “newness” of any younger generation are mostly frivolous.” Wendell Berry, Family Work from The Gift of Good Land