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"Such work requires not only correct principles, skill, and industry, but a knowledge of local particulars and many years; it involves slow, small adjustments in response to questions asked by a particular place. And this is true in general of the patterns and structures of a proper human use of a beloved country, as examination of the traditional landscapes of the Old World will readily show: they were made by use as much as by skill." P121 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))