Wendell Berry, the Kentucky farmer, novelist, poet, and essayist who has spent six decades articulating an alternative to industrial civilization, collects essays and fiction that continue his lifelong exploration of what it means to care for a particular place. The essays critique contemporary culture's wastefulness, its preference for abstract idealism over concrete work, and its willingness to destroy communities and landscapes in the name of progress or efficiency. Berry argues for an economy of care that values health over productivity, permanence over novelty, and local knowledge over expert systems. The fiction returns to Port William, the imagined Kentucky community Berry has chronicled across numerous novels and stories, exploring how its inhabitants have maintained connections to land and each other across generations. Berry's method of interweaving essay and fiction demonstrates his conviction that good ideas must be embodied in particular lives and places to have meaning. He writes as someone who has done the work he advocates, farming the same Kentucky hillside for more than fifty years. Readers will find here both trenchant critique of what Berry sees as civilization's wrong turns and hopeful examples of how people have lived and might live differently. Essential reading for anyone concerned with sustainability, community, or the question of how to live a meaningful life in an age of abstraction.