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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Wendell Berry
Publisher: Sierra Club Books

€�The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility.” —Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America. Davis, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture A probing, personal inquiry into the way in which we use the farmlands that sustain us, and the roots. In The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry observes that as long as “the governing human metaphor was pastoral or agricultural, . On the one hand he firmly links conservation and agriculture, and writes about the problems of modern agriculture in lovely prose. -Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. As Wendell Berry once wrote in The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. Seeking solace, I remembered that I had Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America: On Culture and Agriculture in my backpack. Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. It clarified, and so preserved in human care, the natural cycles of birth, growth, death, and decay.” To the extent we have lost access to that metaphor, Berry As a people we lack the cultural resources to grapple with issues like hydrofracking except in economic terms. Yesterday around 50 food bloggers wrote about tomatoes… and slavery. So I have mixed feeling about Wendell Berry. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. Unfortunately, the two are related. I opened it up at random, and read what Wendell had to say to me. In The Unsettling of America, Berry shows that the demise of small-scale agri-culture is indicative of the crumbling of culture itself.