The Gift of Good Land (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Wendell Berry
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Politics, Farms, farmers, or farming, Agriculture, Ecology, Environment or environmental health, Technology, Industrialization, Land settlement, Machinery
Berry's fourth essay collection, The Gift of Good Land, continues to address many of the same issues that he has touched upon in earlier volumes. Many of these essays first appeared in The New Farm or Organic Gardening during Berry's period of association with Rodale Press. These essays nicely balance theory and practice, both reflecting Berry's criticism of prevailing assumptions of modern American agriculture and offering cultural alternatives to large-scale, mechanized, single-crop farming. A more sensible economy of scale, according to Berry, would favor...
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