Hearing and Humility

Some thoughts on listening, economics, and agriculture

Humility is a kind of listening. It does not come to any person or place and assert its vision, its knowledge. Instead it waits, it observes, it listens. This requires an obedience to the one being listened to and also a patient generosity, a seeking to understand.

Humility begins with listening because it assumes something about our knowing. It assu…