https://vegasharmon.com/authors/paul-kingsnorth/ Recent content in Paul Kingsnorth on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/apprenticed-to-the-land-berry-s-test-of-who-we-are/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/apprenticed-to-the-land-berry-s-test-of-who-we-are/ Berry always saw in humanity’s relationship with its land, and with the wider creation, a litmus test of what kind of people we were, or were becoming. “I have made myself its follower and its apprentice,” he wrote of his own farm in his 1968 essay “A Native Hill.” If we wanted to begin living better lives, he wrote in 2011, we should also apprentice ourselves to something local and particular, in whatever form we found it.