The Gift of Good Land
Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
by Wendell Berry
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Food, and Philosophy.
The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still with us and the solutions no nearer to hand. One of the insistent themes of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, the land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper w...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Food, and Philosophy.
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Michael Pollan
“I?ve learned more from this author than anyone else about how best to engage with nature, and how to write a sturdy and pleasing English sentence. | I’ve learned more from this author than anyone else about how best to engage with nature, and how to write a sturdy and pleasing English sentence.”
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