Upstream or Down?

Wendell Berry, the 80-year-old agricultural leader from Kentucky and champion of the environment, once said all people should be interested in farming because “eating is an agricultural act.”  He added that he’s much better at writing than talking so not only leads by example but by the words he writes down.   I’ve always liked his one-line take on the Golden Rule:

“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”

Find out more about Berry at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wendell-berry

 

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