Monday, January 16, 2023
The Internationalism of the Planted Earth
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (New York: Pantheon, 1969), p. 15:
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Deep in the nature of such men and elemental to their entire being there is the internationalism of the planted earth which makes them, in common with the rice-harvesters of Vietnam or the wine-makers of Burgundy, people who are committed to certain basic ideas and actions which progress and politics can elaborate or confuse, but can never alter.
