A secular pilgrimage -- Notes from an absence and a return -- A homage to Dr. Williams -- The regional motive -- Think little -- Discipline and hope -- In defense of literacy -- Mayhem in the industrial paradise.
Summary:
Annotation The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. It seemed to me, Horenbein wrote, that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants. Wendell Berrys second collection of essays, A Continuous Harmonywas first published in 1972, and includes the seminal Think Little, which was printed inThe Last Whole Earth Catalogueand reprinted around the globe, and the splendid centerpiece, Discipline and Hope, an insightful and articulate essay making a case for what he calls a new middle.
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