In his collection of essays, The Art of the Commonplace, author Wendell Berry discusses his vision for revitalizing agriculture in American society.  Despite farmers being a statistical minority in the modern world of agribusiness, farming is still a culturally relevant practice. Berry warns urbanites from separating themselves further from their agrarian foundation. Humans share a natural kinship with the land; urbanism is often a rebuttal of that kinship—a perversion that disrupts the symbiotic relationship. Often, he argues, “the wholeness of the earth is broken” (x) as a result of a disconnect between people and the land. Through this argument, Berry theorizes the farm as a place of wholeness and unity..