Wendell Berry Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. August 5, 1934
Birthday: August 5
The wrecking ball is characteristic of our way with materials. We 'cannot afford' to log a forest selectively, to mine without destroying topography, or to farm without catastrophic soil erosion. A production-oriented economy can indeed live in this way, but only so long as production lasts.
topic: Erosion, Long, Environmental, Soil Erosion, Topography
