Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of letters, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays. He is also an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers

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If we are to hope to correct our abuses of each other and of other races and of our land, and if our effort to correct these abuses is to be more than a political fad that will in the long run be only another form of abuse, then we are going to have to go far beyond public protest and political action. We are going to have to rebuild the substance and the integrity of private life in this country. We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibility that we have parceled out to the bureaus and the corporations and the specialists, and we are going to have to put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and households and neighborhoods...We need persons and households that do not have to wait upon organizations but can make necessary changes in themselves, on their own.

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Without a complex knowledge of one’s place and without the faithfulness to one’s place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed. Without such knowledge and faithfulness, moreover, the culture of a country will be superficial and decorative, functional only insofar as it may be a symbol of prestige, the affectation of an elite or “in” group.

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Wendell Berry on His Hopes for Humanity

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“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

Wendell Berry Reads A Poem on Hope

'For The Hog Killing' by Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems

Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky Trailer | Independent Lens | PBS

Wendell Berry's Thoughts in the Presence of Fear

The Deep Life of Wendell Berry | Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Distant Neighbors: Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder

Wendell Berry Reads: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer

The Land, The People, and a Proper Economy

INDEPENDENT LENS | Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky | Trailer | PBS

Wendell Berry: The Thought of Limits in the Prodigal Age

How To Be A Poet (To Remind Myself) by Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry's worldview is not for everyone | The PloughCast

Wendell Berry on the Culture of Agriculture

Yale 2013 Chubb Lecture with Wendell Berry

The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry - Movie Clip

Wendell Berry | Agriculture for a Small Planet Symposium July 1, 1974

How Industrialization Ruined Agriculture & Stole Nature | Wendell Berry

"The Age of Disincarnation" (poem by Wendell Berry)

“How to Be a Poet” — written and read by Wendell Berry

Nick Offerman talks Wendell Berry's Impact

The Need to Be Whole by Wendell Berry · Audiobook preview

Wendell Berry - The Peace of Wild Things

Wendell Berry discusses life

Wendell Berry on the politics of gay marriage

Look & See -- Exclusive Trailer

The Agrarian Life with Wendell Berry

Top 10 Wendell Berry Quotes - Gracious Quotes

Wendell Berry and Eric Schlosser: The World-Ending Fire

Wendell Berry - Kentucky Arts And Letters Day 2019

On the Pleasures of Eating, by Wendell Berry

"An Agro-Ethical Aesthetic:" A Conversation with Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder: Distant Neighbors - 2014 Festival of Faiths

Right Ideas: Wendell Berry

Enemies by Wendell Berry

The peace of wild things, by Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, Avenali Chair in the Humanities, 2012

A Warning to My Readers by Wendell Berry (Read by Brandon Meeks)

Wendell Berry a rare reading session

Wendell Berry: "Now We're Hearing from the World"

The Problem With Our Food System - Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry | Manifesto. Il fronte di liberazione del contadino impazzito

"A Vision" by Wendell Berry

Michael Pollan & Wendell Berry Live at the Clifton Center!

Wendell Berry Farming Program

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