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Eternity is the farmer who knows his grandfather plowed the same field. Eternity is the craftsperson fixing a tool rather than replacing it.
If you want to survive the future, stop trying to live forever. Start trying to belong somewhere forever. 🪵🌍 david fleming eternity
"David Fleming said: 'Eternity is not a long time, but a large place.' Eternity is the farmer who knows his grandfather
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You don't need to live forever. You just need to live somewhere deeply enough that your presence matters to the future and your memory honors the past.
When most people think of the word "eternity," they imagine an endless stretch of time—a line that never ends. But when the late cultural historian, economist, and philosopher David Fleming used the word, he wasn't talking about time at all. He was talking about place .
We spend our lives chasing 'duration'—clocks, calendars, efficiency. But Fleming argued that real meaning comes from 'eternity': the depth of belonging to a specific patch of earth.