Wendell Berry
“Now We’re Hearing from the World”, Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry on Agriculture
Wendell Berry always hits the nail on the head. A brilliant and perspicacious advocate for the small family farmer: “… if you’re going to have sustainable agriculture, it has to be adapted locally. Local adaptation means that you observe in the economic landscape the same processes that you find in healthy natural landscapes: You must [...]
From Wendell Berry
Extracts from an interview with Wendell Berry from the current issue of Humanities journal (sent to me by Richard Flatau): “I have realized, more and more, that the impulse in my work is the impulse of local adaptation, which puts the burden squarely on my own life. It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to [...]
The Mad Farmer Liberation Front By Wendell Berry
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in [...]
A Lecture From Wendell Berry
“It may seem plausible to suppose that the head of the American Tobacco Company would have imagined at least that a dependable supply of raw material to his industry would depend upon a stable, reasonably thriving population of farmers and upon the continuing fertility of their farms. But he imagined no such thing. In this [...]
From Wendell Berry
“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” — Wendell Berry
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