It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'
Wendell BerryWe are now, measurably, reducing the availability of these life-supporting goods which we can think of (though only on the conditions of good health and good care) as self-renewing or "sustainable." We are also destroying rapidly the supplies of the fossil fuels, which are limited and not renewable, and on which we have become totally dependent.
Wendell BerryIโve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people canโt invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasnโt invented by us, and we canโt uninvent it. Weโll need some help with that.
Wendell Berry