We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to e — Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.(pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")

— Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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