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The wool wheel is indeed a walking wheel. Weary spinsters, who aptly named it, walked mile after mile during an energetic day's spinning. Twenty miles before the wheel in one day was not unusual for a spinster in Colonial times. To spin enough yarn for even the simplest garment meant a long journey on foot, a hundred miles walked before the wheel, to produce enough warp and wool for one day's weaving. Handspun and handwoven coverlets and household linens represent incalculable hours of effort.

— The joy of spinning by Marilyn Kluger (A Fireside book)

I agree that it is problematic if environmentalists, including ethicists, emphasize blame for environmental degradation above all else. Doing so is a limited approach to environmental ethics and can be quite discouraging. A positive ethic in the sense of being both prescriptive and uplifting, or at least offering some hope, can be quite helpful in motivating behavioral change. However, examining only positive moral emotions will also lead to an impoverished ethic, as it will ignore an important part of human experience, a potential source of ethics, and/or potential hindrance to ethical life. I am interested in ethics for an imperfect world, which requires us to grapple with how to do ethics given our finitude and failings, not just our possibilities.

— Environmental Guilt and Shame by Sarah E. Fredericks (Page 112)