Strength of Body: A Joyful Expenditure

"[A]s a people, we must learn again to think of human energy, our energy, not as something to be saved, but as something to be used and to be enjoyed in use. We must understand that our strength is, first of all, strength of body, and that this strength cannot thrive except in useful, decent, satisfying, comely work.

"There is no such thing as a reservoir of bodily energy. By saving it—as our ideals of labor-saving and luxury bid us to do—we simply waste it, and waste much  else along with it."

—Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

This true in my experience. Quotes like this get me excited to work as a landscaper and agrarian.