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"would like my country to be seen and known with an attentiveness that is schooled and skilled. I would like it to be loved with a minutely particular affection and loyalty. I would like the work in it to be practical and loving and respectful and forbearing. In order for these things to happen, the sciences and the humanities are going to have to come together again in the presence of the practical problems of individual places, and of local knowledge and local love in individual people-people able to see, know, think, feel, and act coherently and well without the modern instinct of deference to the "outside expert."" P118 (Wendell Berry – What Are People For North Point Press (2005))