Deserthomemaker’s Reviews > The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture > Status Update

“It offers an example of a sort of reconciliation by which we might escape the endless swinging between center and margins, rigidity and revolt, that has dominated our culture for so long. The remedy is to accommodate the margin within the form, to allow the wilderness or nature to thrive in domesticity, to accommodate diversity within unity.”

True of agriculture, true of politics, and true of life.

“The way is thus opened to run a university as a business, the main purpose of which is to sell diplomas—after a complicated but undemanding four-year ritual—and thereby give employment to professors.”

“Cultural solutions are organisms, not machines, and they cannot be invented deliberately or imposed by prescription.”

“It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth.”

From birth, right now, we are carrying the physical and the moral poisons produced by our crude and ignorant use of this sort of energy. And the more abundant the energy of this sort that we use, the more abounding must be the consequences.