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[^3]\n\nAn editor at Penguin approached the author to edit a collection of essays by Wendell Berry for a British audience, noting that Berry's work had not previously been published in book form in the U.K. [^4]\n\nBerry opposed the modern monoculture and the extractive corporate economy, which he argued 'sell[s] the world to buy fire,' in favor of locally adapted economies based on local nature and work. [^5]\n\nBerry's writing consistently addressed the decline of the human-scale world and the need to restore the human spirit against attacks from mountaintop removal coal mining and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's war on small farmers. [^6]\n\nWendell Berry never bought a computer or used a smartphone, refused to use air travel, and lived and worked in a small rural community to practice what he preached. [^7]\n\nBerry described himself as a 'forest Christian' or 'marginal Christian' due to his uneasy distance from conservative institutional politics and dogmatism, despite his writings being deeply infused with biblical themes. 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