Tuesday, July 08, 2008

News at Eleven: In a functioning culture the landscape

is full of stories. Stories adhere to it. And they're most interesting when they're told within the landscape. If, say, an oral-history project records somebody's story and puts it in the university archives, then it's a different story. It's become isolated, misplaced, displaced. [--Wendell Berry]

from The Sun Magazine: Digging In: Wendell Berry On Small Farms, Local Wisdom, And The Folly Of Greed

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