The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

Since its publication in 1977 The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Todays agribusiness however takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result we as a nation are more estranged from the landfrom the intimate knowledge love and care of it. Sadly his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. Although this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong Berry writes there are people working to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth. Wendell Berry is one of those people writing and working as ever with passion eloquence and conviction.