THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA: CULTURE AND AGRICULTURE
Book ID/图书代码： 03371015B77473
English Summary/英文概要： A small quote from The Unsettling of America:
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land—from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economic system dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although “this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,” Berry writes, there are good people working “to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth.” Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《美国的不安》中一小段节选：
“土壤是连接生命的重要元素，我们生于土壤，葬于土壤。土壤可以治愈疾病，令人们重返年轻。如果不能恰当的保护土壤，我们将失去居住的社区，因为没有土壤，就没有生命。”
自1977年出版以来，《美国的不安》被公认为美国著作的典范。书中，作者Wendell Berry良好的农业不仅关系到文化发展，也牵涉到精神文明。然而，当今的农场经营将农业剥离了文化的范畴。因此，作为一个民族，我们离土地越来越疏远——越来越缺乏对土地的关心和爱护。
可悲的是，尽管作者的观点颇具说服力，但在一味追求利润和产量的经济体系下，我们仍旧在不断地失去我们的社区、不断地破坏自然。Berry表示，尽管书中所述悲剧正在上演，但仍有一些好心人士正在不断努力，保护我们居住的这个地球。而Berry正是这些人中的一员，怀着热情，坚持不懈地写作。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：对于Wendell Berry的称赞：
“Wendell Berry的作品真诚、创新、高尚。”——《华盛顿邮报》
“ Berry的措辞中蕴含着智慧，深刻思考了生命的矛盾与奇迹，令人眼前一亮。”—— 《基督教科学箴言报》
“当今美国最杰出的严肃类散文家。”——Edward Abbey
Praise for Wendell Berry
“Wendell Berry speaks as well as anyone of what is genuine, what is creating, what is ennobling.” —The Washington Post
“[Berry’s words] shine with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonders of life.” —Christian Science Monitor
“The best serious essayist now at work in the United States.” —Edward Abbey
About the Author/作者介绍： Wendell Berry著有50多本著作，包括诗歌、小说和散文，近期荣获了全国人文奖章等奖项。40多年来，他和妻子Tanya一直居住在肯塔基州，以务农为生。
Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the National Humanities Medal, the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For more than forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
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