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Speed
…We seem to grant to our high-speed roads and our airlines the rather thoughtless assumption that people can change places as rapidly as their bodies can be transported. That, as my own experience keeps proving to me, is not true. … The landscape has been subdued so that one may drive over it at seventy miles per hour without any concession whatsoever to one’s whereabouts. … Though one is in Kentucky one is not experiencing Kentucky; one is experiencing the highway, which might be in nearly any hill country east of the Mississippi.
— from Wendell Berry, “An Entrance to the Woods” in Of Woods and Waters, originally from Recollected Essays 1965-1980 (Northpoint Press, 1981)
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