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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

Quote from Wendell Berry's presentation at close of Slow Food Nation in San
Francisco:

"For too long, humans have been spared, mainly by the cheapness of the
fossil fuels, from the universal necessity of local adaptation.

"It is ultimately an inescapable biological imperative that human land use
economies should correspond as closely as possible to the ecological mosaic.
To this, we no longer have even the illusion of a second choice.

"The increasing cost of energy and the vulnerability of long distance
transportation in an age of violence show the importance of local food and
forest communities and the reasonable extent of local economic
self-sufficiency everywhere."

http://slowfoodnation.org/videos