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CHAPTER THREE: THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AS A CRISIS OF AGRICULTURE

“ ‘Agripower,’ it will be noted, is not measured by the fertility or health of the soul, or the health, wisdom, thrift, or stewardship of the farming community. It is measured by its ability to produce a marketable surplus, which ‘generates agridollars.’ “

CHAPTER TWO: THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AS A CRISIS OF CHARACTER

Berry claims that “the disease of the modern character is specialization.” I had not considered this before reading him, but it seems the most apt diagnosis of our time.

The discussion of a “responsible consumer” has re-inspired me to meet my own needs as much as possible by way of cooking, gardening, clothes making, and entertaining myself.

CHAPTER ONE: THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA
Introducing the idea that we do not see land as our homeland and are divided between exploitation and nurture. We are divided between persons and within ourselves on this count. “The exploiter…serves an institution or organization; the nurturer serves land, household, community, place.”

“The first casualties of the exploitive revolution are character and community.”