American writer, farmer, and cultural critic born in 1934 in Kentucky, author of The Unsettling of America and the Port William novels. Berry critiques industrial agriculture, technological modernity, and the dissolution of local community and land stewardship.
Articulated the ethics of place, belonging, and responsible land use as a counterpoint to industrial capitalism and technological abstraction; grounded moral philosophy in actual farming practice.
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