Should We All be Farmers?

Title: Should We All be Farmers?
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1462 | Pages: 6.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Should We All be Farmers?

Should we all be farmers? My first impression of Wendell Berry’s book, The Unsettling of America; Culture & Agriculture was “What could this possibly have to do with me?” I first thought that Berry wanted us all to be farmers, but then I realized this book argues that the way our society behaves is directly related to the decline of small farms and the state of our ecological system. Berry wanted the people who read …showed first 75 words of 1462 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1462 total…yes. In some ways we should all think like farmers. No one has a greater respect for the land than farmers, and no one knows how to keep the earth healthy like farmers. If we all thought just a little bit like farmers, then we are making progress. By keeping parts of the earth untouched and using only what we have to, we can insure the earth will be here for many generations to enjoy.

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