Aug 2, 2021
4 min read
Take a Path to Your Destiny, Not a Road
How this one metaphor makes all the difference
In his timeless essay, “A Native Hill,” the farmer-philosopher Wendell Berry distinguishes a path from a road:
A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not…
