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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
by Wendell Berry
from Sierra Club Books

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• 50 word sentences, and dry. -
  As I read this book, I agree with Berry on many points, the evolution of householder into consumer, and agriculturist into corporate farming.
  In fact much of what we see to today that drives small farmers off the farm is the drive for more. Corporate interests in the guise of Ted Turner, ConAgra, ADM are sucking up huge quantities of midwestern lands either to create a communist utopic buffalo ground or a rape the farm ground to produce Ethanol.
  Berry at times is difficult for a simple farm kid to... more info

• One of the greatest books I have ever read.
  Wendell Berry says everything I feel and everything I have thought since I was a child growing up in S. Calif. watching the beautiful land be consumed ruthlessly by development. There is something wrong with todays ways, and I can't put it to words, but thankfully Wendell can! I wish I could get this book into everyones home and read by all. Though you do sense the sadness of the loss of all that is of real value, you also sense the hope of what our future will be like, after the oil. We will have to return... more info

• prophetic
  So many things talked about in this book have happened. There's things he talks of that seem unbelievable...but years ago he said there would be dairy farms here and beef farms there and the diverse farms would give way to specialization. That has happened. There's a good many points in this book that presents his views - and that of many Americans - straight up. Not everyone will agree. There are companies who say it's safe to use their chemical or it's only the other guy who's careless. Country and farms... more info

• Discovering a buried treasure
  I grew up in Clarksville, TN, on the border with Guthrie, KY. Up the road not too far is Port Royal, KY, where one of the greatest living Americans still resides. He has lived there as long as I have been alive, and I am now over 30, but I had never heard of Wendell Berry until I had passed my thirtieth year. Were it not for the incomparable radio program "Unwelcome Guests", I may never have heard of him. It is a testament to the failure of our economy, education system, and culture, and it is why no... more info

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