Full name: The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural

Author: Wendell Berry Year: 1981 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Essays, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780865470521 9781582434841 0865470529 1582434840

In the twenty-four essays of this collection, Well Berry stresses the carefully modulated harmonics of indivisibility in culture and agriculture, the interdepence, the wholeness, the oneness, of man, animals, the land, the weather, and the family. To touch one, he shows, is to tamper with them all.Here he continues issues first raised in The Unsettling of America; the problems addressed there are still with us and the solutions no nearer to hand, Mr. Berry writes of his journeys to the highlands of Peru, the deserts of southern Arizona, and the Amish country to study traditional agricultural practices. He writes of homesteading, tools and their uses, horses and tractors, family work, land reclamation, diversified land use.In the title essay Mr. Berry draws parallels between the Christian notion of stewardship and the Buddhist doctrine of "right livelihood." He develops the compelling argument that the "gift" of good land has strings attached: the recipient has it only as long as he practices responsible stewardship. Similar books: What Are People For? by Wendell Berry The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf Against Joie de Vivre by Phillip Lopate Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry Life Is a Miracle by Wendell Berry Mythologies by Roland Barthes The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno Every Force Evolves a Form by Guy Davenport Seven Nights by Jorge Luis Borges The Curtain by Milan Kundera Bringing It to the Table by Wendell Berry Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy On Literature by Umberto Eco S/Z by Roland Barthes Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick