The Road to Hell is Paved

Stay away from any thing that obscures the location it is in," composes bard Wendell Berry. The automobile is the flawless appliance for obscuring locations, particularly an automobile with a cellular phone. "Honey, I'm just departing the parking allotment, I'll be dwelling in an hour." One location like every other. The natural contours of a countryside signify not anything to an 80-ton Caterpillar bulldozer. Scrape it flat. When the first human hit a blaze with flint, untrammeled environment was in retreat. Wendell Berry, that champion of cherished locations, is a grower as well as a poet. ...