"I had a dense tangle of reasons for wanting to build something, but one of them was to join the world of the makers-- homo faber--and leave, if only temporarily, the dodgier world of words. I was looking for an antidote to the increasingly abstract and abstracted nature of my altogether typical working life, most of which was conducted in front of screens at an ever greater remove from the natural world."
-Michael Pollan, on constructing his writing house in 'A Place of One's Own'
Reading this quote, one starts to wonder... are we meant to be this disconnected from the natural world? These articles address this idea:
The Case for Working With Your Hands
Many Summer Internships Are Going Organic
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