Farmland Without Farmers
As industrial agriculture replaces men with machines, the American landscape loses its stewards, and the culture they built.
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry was a farmer, an activist, and the author of numerous essays, poems, novels, and short stories. He received the National Humanities Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award, among other honors.
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