Yesterday I shared a quote from Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell.  Today I’d like to share a Wendell Berry quote (from his book The Gift of Good Land) that I came across via Hadden Turner’s Substack.  Turner is an agrarian and writer living in England.  The quote:

The most necessary thing in agriculture, for instance, is not to invent new technologies or methods, not to achieve “breakthroughs,” but to determine what tools and methods are appropriate to specific people, places, and needs and apply them correctly.

This quote resonates with me as both a Christian and a teacher, too.  There’s something about locality that matters, something about the specific, that this quote captures particularly well.  Makes me want to dig up my copy of the book.