Berry Ch 1&2

3. Surrendering practical household skills, decision-making, and agency to certified experts and corporate institutions.
6. The deliberate restoration of household skills, practical self-reliance, and personal responsibility to reduce corporate dependency.
7. The condition where citizens become completely dependent on commercial products for basic needs while losing personal self-reliance.
8. The exploiter's quantitative metric measuring success purely by speed, lowest unit cost, and maximum yield.
12. Mining finite soil fertility and non-renewable energy for quick profit, destroying long-term ecological viability.
14. Berry's core thesis that ecological destruction is fundamentally an internal moral failure caused by cultural fragmentation.
15. Over-reliance on bureaucratic systems, corporate supply lines, and external experts to perform essential life functions.
16. The commitment to 'stay put' in a specific place, building long-term care and local roots rather than transient resource extraction.
17. The maximum yield or output land can produce continuously without degrading soil fertility, water, or ecosystem health.
18. Practical wisdom and skill gained through direct observation, hands-on labor, and daily engagement with the land.
20. The cultural devaluation of physical craftsmanship, treating manual work as drudgery to be eliminated by machines.

1. The severing of connections between body, mind, work, community, and earth resulting from institutional over-specialization.
2. The legal and ethical right to use and enjoy the fruits of the earth without destroying or wasting its underlying biological capital.
4. An extreme division of labor where experts handle narrow technical tasks while relinquishing responsibility for the whole system.
5. Environmental preservation that protects scenic wilderness as an aesthetic object ('behind glass') while ignoring working farmland.
9. Restricting resource consumption to annual biological yields, preserving the underlying carrying capacity for future generations.
10. An agrarian steward whose primary goal is biological health and community permanence, using care as the standard of judgment.
11. Ecological care integrated directly into daily agricultural work, local land management, and community production.
13. The nurturer's qualitative metric evaluating land use by long-term health, ecological renewal, and local responsibility.
19. An industrial agent whose primary goal is rapid financial profit and output volume, using efficiency and speed as the sole standards.