| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.3

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Wendell Berry: Life and Work. Edited by Jason Peters. Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xiv + 349 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $35.00.

Wendell Berry is both an anachronism and a visionary. His advocacy, both in words and practice, for the vaunted Jeffersonian small farmer, is hopelessly optimistic about an ever-receding goal. His unyielding hope, which has drawn loyal followers, is to restore a reliable identity between Americans, an unassuming lifestyle, and home place on the land. Berry carefully crafts his vision around the values of domestic skills, a high degree of self-sufficiency, and the practice of restraint toward the environment. Berry finds today's dominant consumer society demolishes well-being because of its alienation from and indifference to the defining qualities of humans, society, and nature. In this light, Berry can be described as both a populist and a libertarian. He also has signs of spirituality deepened into land as sacrament, and a man of letters in the Southern literary tradition.

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