It’s too easy to dismiss Berry’s thought by saying that since we can’t all move back to some idyllic, rural home, we don’t need to pay attention to him.  Berry doesn’t believe in some idyllic past, and he doesn’t think everyone should live on a farm.  He’s arguing something much more radical, in the literal sense of that word, when he claims that “to be in place is good and to be out of place is evil.”  Fortunately for us, we can acknowledge our creaturely limits and express proper gratitude even when we’re geographically placeless.  Indeed, if we could not, how could we ever find our way back home?

Jeffrey Bilbro, "Place Isn't Just Geographical"