![]() ![]() Offerman’s recently released book (his fifth) Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside is his way of using his own stories to share some of Berry’s agrarian values. A writer, Berry has lived and worked the same farm in Kentucky for more than 50 years, and believes strongly in small-scale agriculture as the ethical and moral antidote to American consumerism. It’s an idea that was planted in him many years ago, when he became a disciple of Wendell Berry. The problem, as Offerman sees it, is one of scale: we are always expanding in search of more. Why are we so invested in diarrhea?’ we’re like ‘No, no, no, we’ll find a new, better bed.’” Instead of saying, ‘Hey, let’s address our digestive systems. ![]() Instead of saying, hey, we’re shitting the bed, more floridly and soppingly. It’s okay! We’ll build rockets and race to Mars. ![]() “That is the purest drivel and utter bullshit that we continue to desperately try and sell ourselves. “We’re back to the human fallacy of Manifest Destiny, and man’s dominion over nature,” he says. So, if it’s alright with you, he’d prefer we take better care of Mother Earth, and quit thinking the future of humanity lies on Mars. For two decades now, he’s run a woodshop in L.A., where he lives-and for seven seasons of Parks & Rec, played Ron Swanson, himself a great lover of wood. Nick Offerman, it might not surprise you to know, is a lover of the great outdoors. ![]()
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