As With the Work of a Honeybee...

… The modern age was made possible by the freeing and concurrently the cheapening of, energy. It can be said, of course, that the modern age was made possible by technologies that CONTROL energy and thus make it usable at an unprecedented rate. But such control is at best extremely limited: the devices by which industrial and military energies are used control them only momentarily; their moment of usefulness sets them loose into the world as social, ecological and geological FORCES. WE can use these energies only as explosives; we control ends with the small amount of released energy that we are able to harness. Past that, the effects are on there own, to compound themselves as they will. In modern times we have never been able to subject our use of energy to a sense of responsibility anywhere near complex enough to equal its effects… , pg 116 “The Art of the Commonplace” “The Body And The Earth” Wendell Berry…

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.  Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man.  And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became.  Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others.  Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.  ~Elizabeth West, Hovel in the Hills


I can only liken the use of the bicycle to that of the work of honeybee… the only creature, I know of, that improves the environment around it as it goes about its business, As it makes its it’s “living”, with the utmost efficiency and beneficence...