Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).
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What one has to say to begin with is that, as humans, we are limited in intelligence and we really have no reliable foresight.
Caretaking by Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge, Orion Magazine, (12 March 2019)
The standard that I always come back to is the health of the world, which is the same as our own personal health.
Caretaking by Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge, Orion Magazine, (12 March 2019)
One of the roots of the problem is the focus of environmentalists.
Caretaking by Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge, Orion Magazine, (12 March 2019)
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Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977). His attention to the culture and economy of rural communities is also found in the novels and stories of Port William, such as A Place on Earth (1967), Jayber Crow (2000), and That Distant Land (2004).
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