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Last night I had the great privilege to see and hear two of the most influential and inspiring figures in the sustainable food movement in conversation. While Michael Pollan has become a household name through books like Omnivore's Dilemma, and most recently, films like Food Inc. and The Botany of Desire, he took the interviewer's seat and gave the stage to a man who has touched so many of us who care about living in harmony with nature and whose prose about Americans' relationship to their land has been as profound as it's been prophetic.
This was Wendell Berry's night, the 75-year old agrarian, author and voice of stewardship who had traveled all the way from his Kentucky farm to share his eloquence, humor, and wisdom with an appreciative audience at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. It's impossible to list all the books, essays and poems Mr. Berry has written or to do justice in words to the impact he has had on the current renaissance of agrarian awakenings from budding farmers markets to a White House garden, so I will just relay some choice quotes that I hastily scribbled in the dark theater.
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