Wendell Berry

A mind overloaded with work, which in agriculture means too much acreage, covers the place like a stretched membrane—too short in some places, broken by strain in others, too thin everywhere. The overloaded mind tries to solve its problems by oversimplifying itself and its place—that is, by industrialization. It ceases to work at the necessary likeness between the processes of farming and the processes of nature and beings to order the farm on the assumption that it should and can be like a factory. It gives up diversity for monoculture. It gives up the complex strategies of independence for a simple dependence on industrial suppliers.