Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Someone has to do everything that is done.
To our health care workers and essential employees: Thank you for everything you are doing.
The world needs ditch diggers, too.
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.
When they talk about my job being important, I say, 'The important jobs are the ones that you'd notice if you left for a week.'
We just make clothes, but for some, that's an important thing.
