Fri, 04 Aug 2006

Taking Care of What We've Been Given

Great interview with Wendell Berry ... I like this guy a lot, though we have points of disagreement. But on the main points of the value and importance of the agrarian life and the integration of morality into the real world, he's pretty much spot on.

For the past four decades, writer Wendell Berry has crafted a body of work within the "green" American literary tradition that includes Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gary Snyder and Edward Abbey. His poems, essays and novels extol the virtues of agrarian life, lament the depredations of the industrial economy and celebrate the integration of ethics, responsibility and humility that come from devoting careful attention to the natural world.

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via Mutualist Blog

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