From the book cover:

We are asked repeatedly by our elected officials to console ourselves with that most degenerate of political arguments: though we are not doing as well as we might, we could do worse, and we are doing better than some.

The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas H. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. "It seems to me," Hornbein wrote, "that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much and as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants." Wendell Berry's second collection of essays, A Continuous Harmony was first published in 1972, and includes the seminal "Think Little," which was printed in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue and reprinted around the globe, and the splendid centerpiece, "Discipline and Hope," an insightful and articulate essay making a case for what he calls "a new middle."

"These essays are a joy to read, provoking concern and indignation at the present treatment of the world ... a dignified and lucid statement of the need for personal attention - love - for the land." The Boston Phoenix

Cover design by David Bullen

Contents:

A Secular Pilgrimage
Notes from an Absence and a Return
A Homage to Dr. Williams
The Regional Motive
Think Little
Discipline and Hope
In Defense of Literacy
Mayhem in the Industrial Paradise