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| Of the Land and the Spirit |
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Subjects(s):
Christianity
Comparative Religion
Environment and Nature
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Price: $19.95
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ISBN: 978-1-933316-61-1
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Book Size: 6 x 9
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# of Pages: 256
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Language: English
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Description
Twenty-five years before Rachel Carson published her famous work Silent Spring, Lord Northbourne coined the phrase “organic farming” and helped to promote the importance of a holistic approach to the environment. His work, linking spirituality and ecology, has inspired a generation of writings from Wendell Berry to HRH Prince Charles.
This book not only features Northbourne’s previously unpublished writings, but also his private correspondence with Thomas Merton, highlighting the spiritual depth of his writings.
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Lord Northbourne (1896-1982) was a Renaissance man: a farmer, painter, Olympic rower, translator, and a widely respected author on both ecology and religion. His first book coined the term “organic farming”, and he worked with E. F. Schumacher to bring greater awareness to ecological concerns. His subsequent writings include his concern for ecology along with an exploration of the nature of religion in the modern world.
The present anthology is intended to illustrate the uncommon breadth and depth that characterize Lord Northbourne’s writings. It includes selections from the fascinating correspondence between Lord Northbourne and Thomas Merton.
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Lord Northbourne, the 4th Baron Northbourne, was an agriculturist, educator, translator, and writer on both agriculture and comparative religion. He was educated at Oxford and was for many years Provost of Wye College in England. His first published writings were on "organic" farming (he introduced the term), and he later began to write on Traditionalist/Perennialist themes. A number of Lord Northbourne's essays appeared in the British journal, Studies in Comparative Religion, and were later included in his books Religion in the Modern World (1963) and Looking Back on Progress (1970).
Lord Northbourne's essential writings are collected in Of the Land and the Spirit. His other contributions to World Wisdom's books include:
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Wendell Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English, and poet. The New York Times has called Berry the "prophet of rural America." Berry is the author of more than 30 books of essays, poetry and novels. He has worked a farm in Henry County, Kentucky since 1965. He has received numerous awards for his work, including an award from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and letters in 1971, and most recently, the T. S. Eliot Award.
World Wisdom has included essays by Wendell Berry in the following publications:
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“Northbourne … introduced many ideas that pepper current discussions of organic and bio-dynamic farming, including farmers’ markets, the relationship between food and health, the precautionary principle, the principle of care, the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, and warning against mining the fertility of the soil. If we are to attribute the title of father of Organic Agriculture, the title must be given to Walter Northbourne.”
—Elementals: The Journal of Bio-Dynamics
“Lord Northbourne expresses convincingly enough his horror of the social system that seems to be growing up. The frenzy of destruction by which the nations are now overtaken must be succeeded by some new world, and a society that accepts the consequences of science but uses science to control them…. But any society will crash in its turn unless it embodies those qualities of simplicity and honesty which Lord Northbourne finds in life upon the land.”
—The Times Literary Supplement
“Lord Northbourne was the philosopher of the organic movement's early years. He believed that care for the earth is a spiritual discipline and that our world's bounty and beauty are best preserved through fidelity to religious tradition. This selection of his writings amply demonstrates the artistic sensitivity and lucid rejection of secularism which were the hallmarks of his thought. It provides a most welcome opportunity for a new generation to discover the ideas of an uncompromising cultural prophet.”
—Philip Conford, author of The Origins of the Organic Movement
"…Northbourne deals with the profoundest issues so clearly and concisely, this might be the first book to place in the hands of those wanting to understand why 'tradition' is so important. Not only does the author have an exemplary style, but he constantly tests his own arguments against common sense and experience. Time and again the reader is felt to be put in his 'right mind', in dealing with questions that currently perplex our society."
—Temenos Review
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