Wendell Berry Quote

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")


The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (ed. Counterpoint, 2003) - ISBN: 9781582439242


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...

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...

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...

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...