The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

by Wendell Berry

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If I had to name just one book (other than the Bible) that had the most impact on my life , this would be it. With eloquence and clarity, Wendell Berry expressed the ideas in my head decades before I ever thought them. (

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mldg | May 6, 2008 |

Wendell Berry just makes more sense than most other people. I dont always agree with his opinions, but I cannot just write them off, and I am always the better for arguing with him.

This particular book is about agriculture, but you could substitute the word "church," or "family" or "school" or "workplace" for the word agriculture and you would learn about how you think about those areas as well. (

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The mid-20th-century environmental crisis that led to important protective legislation in the 1970s, is, to poet/farmer Wendell Berry's mind, also a crisis of character, agriculture, and culture. Because Americans are divorced from the land, they mistreat it; because they are divorced from each other, they mistreat those around them. Berry, writing in a prophetic mode, argues that if Americans are to heal the environmental wounds their land has suffered, they will also need to create more meaningful work, sustain happier and healthier lives, and return to what conservatives call "family values." The Unsettling of America is a quarter century old now, but most of its arguments remain current.

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In The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families, and as a nation we are thus more estranged from the land - from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, as Berry notes in the afterword to this new edition, his arguments and observations are still relevant today. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economics dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits.… (more)