Wendell Berry has taught at Stanford University, Georgetown College, New York University, the University of Cincinnati, and Bucknell University. He taught at his alma mater, the University of Kentucky from 1964-77, and again from 1987-93.Wendell Berry has influenced the way that many view culture and the human responsibility to take care and manage the world and economies around us. I am particularly fascinated by several of his ideas because of their attempt to truly change the world and world view as a whole. In this age of tweets and “likes” it’s difficult to find someone with a voice that speaks to the larger masses and to our moral beings rather than our outward flesh. Wendell Berry does an excellent job in bringing out discussions about land, farming, energy, and other things that really bring the world and our involvement with the world to the forefront of our ADHD minds. He speaks to the areas that you either care about or if you had the time, would want to know about. He delves right into such topics as body and soul, and romance and marriage as related to agriculture, he certainly has a way of relating just about anything his ultimate point being: Everything is connected. “The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.” This very much is an idea that comes from the Bible. Genesis 2:15 states "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." God calls us to be stewards of our Earth, and it unfortunately one of the many things humans neglect. We are constantly polluting and ruining the world around us and we are beginning to feel the consequences of that. I believe that Berry would agree with that idea. Berry believes that the human dilemma is caused by our own doings and believes that with what we have done to the earth, we must now reap to consequences (Berry 18). He believes that no matter what we do, we leave a scar upon the land of where we have been and what we have done. He loves the land, his community of tobacco farmers, family values, and anything that will promote and protect real relationships among unique communities dispersed throughout this country and beyond. He opposes technology that isolates people, big business that overruns small towns, and the ubiquitous effect transportation and information superhighways have on diversified communities. Berry introduces a couple of ideas on how to deal with these issues. One of these views that Berry brings up is the old fashioned, traditional view of homes and towns. Berry views small, self-sufficient communities as ultimately the best protection for personal freedom. He believes that we need to stand against the constant pressures of consumerism. He believes that with the incoming of consumerism and big companies, puts individuals dependent on large corporations for the necessities of life. The issue with the Industrial Revolution was that in the place of a small, responsible local economy came a large, impersonal global economy of multinational corporations that instead of benefitting the local communities, simply colonized and extracted valuable resources. To Berry, this resulted in a pervasive loss of moral responsibility that extended its long thin fingers into other aspects of the human moral dilemma-the consequences of which are apparent in the news every day. “The indispensable form that can intervene between public and private interests is that of the community. The concerns of public and private, republic and citizen, necessary as they are, are not adequate for the shaping of human life. Community alone, as a principle and as a fact, can raise the standards of local health (ecological, economic, social, and spiritual) without which the other two interests will destroy one another. By community, I mean the commonwealth and common interests, commonly understood, of people living together in a place and wishing to continue to do so. To put it another way, community is a locally understood interdependence of local people, local culture, local economy, and local nature. Lacking the interest of or in such a community, private life becomes merely a sort of reserve in which individuals defend their “right” to act as they please and attempt to limit or destroy the “rights” of other individuals