"Manifesto" and "The Making of a Marginal Farm" by Wendell Berry

Respect. The main thing I gather from Berry's writing. From what I have deduced of his writing I believe his intention is to create awareness on how our disrespect towards the land by developing it into modern living has caused almost irreversible damages. Those that are reversible, requires not only a long period of time to restore but also expensive to carry out. Not only that, but despite restoration the land would forever be scarred by the selfishness of human's wants of a "better living".

From his writing I gathered that modernization is not necessarily a good thing. This I think is because when we develop an area, we fail to consider it's implications. Everything done today always leads to monetary profits that blinds us from the threat is poses. We are only aware of these threats once a problem is well underway.