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A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. "It seemed to me," Horenbein wrote, "that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants." Wendell Berry's second collection of essays, A Continuous Harmonywas first published in 1972, and includes the seminal "Think Little," which was printed in The Last Whole Earth Catalogueand reprinted around the globe, and the splendid centerpiece, "Discipline and Hope," an insightful and articulate essay making a case for what he calls "a new middle."

Subject
philosophy
Themes
foodenvironment
Audience
adult
Length
short · 182 pages
Form
essays

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