The Gift of Good Land : Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural
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Amazon.com
In this collection of essays, continuing the argument begun with The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry writes of the importance of good farming to a healthy culture. By health he means not the mere absence of disease, but the operation of a balanced, nondestructive way of life; his essays on the Amish people of Pennsylvania and Ohio offer a model. "An economy of waste," Berry writes, "is incompatible with a healthy environment"--an environment that operates in balance, within bounds. Arguing for the primacy of family-based, local economies, and for the exercise of intelligence, reverence, and community values, Berry crafts a prose idyll celebrating the pastoral existence.
The Washington Post Book World
"These books [Recollected Essays and The Gift of Good Land] are the kind that you spend months with, hate to give up, and plan to return to soon and often. There is much pure pleasure in them, both in the spare and crafted eloquence of their prose, and in the breadth and depth of their content. They're reference works of the body and soul..."
The Gift of Good Land : Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural,Wendell Berry,North Point Press,0865470529,Agriculture,Agriculture - General,Ecology,Economic aspects,Essays,General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Social aspects,U.S,United States,Applied ecology,Literary studies: general,NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS,Nature / Ecology
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