Rediscovering Husbandry
August 03, 2004
Contributing Editor Eric Miller reviews The Great Meadow by Brian Donahue as this week’s Books and Culture book of the week:
“By Thoreau’s day, some 150 years later, Hartwell’s world was being radically altered by those Donahue dubs ‘the improving men of quiet desperation.’ If we, their children, are to forsake, in Donahue’s words, ‘the shortsighted environmental blunders’ of the world they helped to create, a probing of the relations this earlier people guarded between ecological practice, politics, and faith will provide necessary illumination. What kind of soul does husbandry take? What kind of soul does husbandry make?”
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