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World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry | Wendell Berry
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"Mr. Berry's sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow." ―Nick Offerman, New York Times bestselling author of Paddle Your Own Canoe "Read [Berry] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." ―The New York Times "He is unlike anybody else writing today." ―New Statesman In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his fifty-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home. With grace and conviction, Wendell Berry shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy--the natural world will not survive it. Yet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope. We may be locked in an uneven struggle, but we can and must begin to treat our land, our neighbors, and ourselves with respect and care. As Berry urges, we must abandon arrogance and stand in awe.
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“We are not gonna have an industrial ‘Michael‘, in which it is perceived as tragic that a son fails to succeed his father on an assembly line.”

I wonder if Wendell Berry watched The Wire. (Probably not. He doesn‘t own a television.)

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Two hours in thickly forested mountains with nothing but the dog and the snow and Wendell Berry as narrated by Nick Offerman for company.

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Mood: Wendell Berry and ramble.

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Collection of articles published between 1968 and 2011 by farmer/ intellectual/ poet Wendell Berry on topics such as consumerism, farming, nature, food (with conservative AND left wing ideas, also argueing in favor of a self-sustaining society - made me want to start a veggie garden). I loved his insight and thoughts, LOVED the articles Native Hill, A few words for motherhood, Why I am not going to buy a computer, Two Minds.

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