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Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) 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).
Oct 10, 2022 · Poet, novelist, and environmentalist Wendell Berry lives in Port Royal, Kentucky near his birthplace, where he has maintained a farm for over 40 years. Mistrustful of technology, he holds deep reverence for the land and is a staunch defender of agrarian values.
Feb 21, 2022 · Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age. Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward. By Dorothy Wickenden. February 21, 2022. Berry has...
Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Port Royal, Kentucky, U.S.) is an American author whose nature poetry, novels of America’s rural past, and essays on ecological responsibility grew from his experiences as a farmer.
1318 quotes from Wendell Berry: 'The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
Poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry was born on August 5, 1934, in New Castle, Kentucky. He attended the University of Kentucky at Lexington where he received a BA in English in 1956 and an MA in 1957. Berry is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, essays, and novels.
Wendell Berry. When despair for the world grows in me. and I wake in the night at the least sound. in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake. rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things. who do not tax their lives with forethought.
