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Great first pages: Cræft, by Alexander Langlands. How he learned to love the scythe and the old ways. (2017) 
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“In a keynote lecture given to the Heritage Crafts Association in 2013, Sir Christopher Frayling echoed the sentiments of David Pye, in The Nature and Art of Workmanship, when he called craft, ‘a word to start an argument with’.”
— Alexander Langlands
“In a keynote lecture given to the Heritage Crafts Association in 2013, Sir Christopher Frayling echoed the sentiments of David Pye, in The Nature and Art of Workmanship, when he called craft, ‘a word to start an argument with’.”
— Alexander Langlands
“We’re increasingly constrained by computers...a pixelated abridgement of reality that...make us blind to the complexity of the natural world...our physical movements have been almost entirely removed as a factor in our own existence. Now all we seem to do is press buttons.”
“Mechanisation has changed the way we think, the way we build knowledge; so familiar has post-industrial power become that we genuinely find it hard to relate to the world before it...we have forgotten how to think like the generations before the Industrial Revolution.” — Cræft
Alex Langlands on the origins of topiary, quoting Pliny the Younger, and the necessity for gardeners of cultivating a hedge, or if you will, a wall, thus proving a basic tenet of civilization: "You can't have a garden without fences."
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