Home Economics: Fourteen Essays
by Wendell Berry
2021-01-17 03:25:30
Home Economics: Fourteen Essays
by Wendell Berry
2021-01-17 03:25:30
Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He mak...
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Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one believe that the good life may not only be harder than what we''re used to but sweeter as well." - The New York Review of Books In Home Economics, Berry explores this process and continues to discuss what it means to make oneself "responsibly at home." As he argues, a measure of the health of the planet is economics - the health of its households."
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