Work and time and money are interchangeable, and [method of production] serves only to transform each of these several kinds of energy into another.
J.B. Jackson, “The Westward-Moving House,” 1953
Midwestern farmers ... do not go on there in the old ways in which their fathers trod for the very good reason they have neither ways nor fathers. … They make experiments, for they must make them. Indeed their farming is itself an experiment. Their broad lands necessitate broad vision. They farm with their brains as well as their hands.
Gail Hamilton in J.B. Jackson, “The Westward-Moving House,” 1953
He thinks of how he himself is radically changing the composition of the soil, how he is changing the face of the earth on a small scale. He thinks of the new house, not yet completed, ready to change its form, its owners, its function at a day’s notice.
J.B. Jackson, “The Westward-Moving House,” 1953
