Poet and farmer Wendell Berry writes a particularly relevant article in Orion Magazine on agriculture. Now that realization of the limitations inherent in dependency on oil is sinking into our collective consciousness, we are gradually realizing that agriculture, which depends upon heavy inputs of petroleum, both in the form of fertilizer and fuel, will change because it must. If it doesn't change it will collapse. Berry, whose book The Unsettling of America (1977) was a revelation to many of us who were not raised on a traditional farm, has not only examined the philosophy and consequences of modern industrial agriculture, but he has also explored the social and spiritual dimensions of living on the Earth as part of an ecosystem and a human society. He is like a prophet, that is, one who sees more clearly than the rest of us where our actions are leading. There is not a person alive today that cannot learn from his knowledge, wisdom and vision. In a sane society, The Unsettling of America would be taught in every school.