The end result is not diet or nutrition, fuel or fad.
It is nothing less than an act of worship and gratitude.
It is from this connection that the wellness of the the people of the Blue Zones stems.
Below some more wisdom from Wendell Berry:
“The word agriculture, after all, does not mean “agriscience,” much less “agribusiness.”
It means “cultivation of land.”
And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult.
The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both “to revolve” and “to dwell.”
To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle.
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term “agribusiness.”
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