We
agrarians are involved in a hard, long, momentous contest,
in which we are so far, and by a considerable margin, the
losers. What we have undertaken to defend is the complex
accomplishment of knowledge, cultural memory, skill,
self-mastery, good sense, and fundamental decencythe
high and indispensable artfor which we probably can
find no better name than good farming. I mean
farming as defined by agrarianism as opposed to farming as
defined by industrialism: farming as the proper use and care
of an immeasurable gift. Wendell Berry
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