The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural

by Wendell Berry

Overview

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 true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640091696
Publisher:	Catapult
Publication date:	09/05/2018
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	836,666
File size:	902 KB

About the Author

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

Editorial Reviews

"These pieces are angry, urgent, courageous, joyous and reaffirming."

Philadelphia Inquirer

"These books [Recollected Essays and The Gift of Good Land] are the kind that you spend months with, hate to give up, and plan to return to soon and often. There is much pure pleasure in them, both in the spare and crafted eloquence of their prose, and in the breadth and depth of their content. They're reference works of the body and soul..."

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