b'The emergence of Homo philios is driven by affection:For humans to have a responsible relationship to the world, they must imagine their places in it. To have a place, to live and belong in a place, to live from a place without destroying it, we must imagine it. By imagination we see it illuminated by its own unique character and by our love for it. By imagination we recognize with sympathy the fellow members, human and nonhuman, with whom we share our place. By that local experience we see the need to grant a sort of preemptive sympathy to all the fellow members, the neighbors, with whom we share the world. As imagination enables sympathy, sympathy enables affection. And in affection we find the possibility of a neighborly, kind, and conserving economy. 6With respect to industrial agriculture, Berry also offers: A large machine, in a large, toxic, eroded cornfield is not, properly speaking, an object or a sign of affection. A similar observation could be made with 6 From Wendell Berrys 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecturethe highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.82'