/tags/agriculture/ Recent content in agriculture on Perlkönig Hugo -- gohugo.io Copyright © 2006-{year} Aaron Dalton. All Rights Reserved. Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/imagination-in-place-by-wendell-berry/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/imagination-in-place-by-wendell-berry/ Rating: 5/5 Wendell Berry, Imagination in Place (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2010). I have read a fair bit of Wendell Berry lately, and I will soon be looking more closely at his fiction. This collection of essays is more autobiographical and is certainly more literary. The overall focus is on influence—how we are influenced by our place and by who we know and what we read. He suggests (p. 42): /posts/what-matters-by-wendell-berry/ Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/what-matters-by-wendell-berry/ Rating: 5/5 Wendell Berry, What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2010). I can’t say enough how much I enjoy Wendell Berry’s writing. At a technical level, his writing is beautiful. He uses plain language , and his arguments are clearly and logically laid out. At a content level, he really speaks to me. I have known for a long time that the world has truly gone insane, but Berry chapters and verses it in clear, powerful language. /posts/home-economics-by-wendell-berry/ Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/home-economics-by-wendell-berry/ Rating: 5/5 Wendell Berry, Home Economics: Fourteen Essays by Wendell Berry (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987). One thing I love about editing is the opportunity to read so many different types of texts I would never normally pick up. Sometimes, even if the book I’m editing is not particularly interesting, I almost always find at least one book or author cited that catches my attention. The Solnit book I previously posted about and this collection both came from my current project.