``Every man is called to give love to the work of the hands. Every man is called to be an artist.” The small family farm is one of the last places—they are getting rarer every day—where men and women can answer that call to be an artist, to learn to give love to the work of their hands. It is one of the last places where the maker is responsible, from start to finish, for the thing made. This certainly is a spiritual value, but it is not for that reason an impractical or uneconomic one. In fact, from the exercise of this responsibility, this giving of love to the work of the hands, the farmer, the farm, the consumer, and the nation all stand to gain in the most practical ways. They gain the means of life, the goodness of food, and the longevity and dependability of the sources of food.``
- Wendell Berry