PLS 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wendell Berry, Selfishness
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Wendell states that his home is not simply material for his writing, it is his home and it comes first. His reading influences his writing as well as his involvement in his place. The discipline of farming is a difficult one, and each farm is unique to its own challenges. Respecting the individuality is the hierarch of farming. To be a farm is not to be an agrarianism, but to be an agrarian is to be a farmer. And encountering your land directly is a farm. The true goal of agrarianism is to surrender yourself and farm well. Giving up your book learning to fit what you are doing to your land. Berry states that farming has influenced his entire life, it isn"t just farming for content for a novel. We need imagination just perception and observation to tell a whole true story about a whole people. Imagination fills in the gaps and creates the whole characters.
