Agriculture

"Correctness and enough time are inseparable notions. Correctness cannot be hurried, for it is both the knowledge of what ought to be done, and the willingness to do it-- all of it, properly.The good worker will not suppose that good work and be made properly answerable to haste or urgency. But the good worker knows too that after it is done work requires yet more time to prove its worth.  One must stay to experience and study and understand the consequences-- must understand them by living with them, and correct them, if necessary, by living longer and with more work.

What works poorly in agriculture-- monoculture, for instance, or annual accounting-- can be pretty fully explained, because what works poorly is invariable some oversimplifying thought that subjugates nature, people, and culture.  What works well ultimately defies explanation because it involves an order of magnitude and complexity that is ultimately incomprehensible." - Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace