Wendell Berry lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Port Royal, Kentucky. An essayist, novelist, and poet, he is the author of more than thirty books. Berry has received numerous awards, including the T. S. Eliot Award, the John Hay Award, the Lyndhurst Prize, and the Aiken-Taylor Award for Poetry from The Sewanee Review. His books include the classic The Unsettling of America, Andy Catlett: Early Travels, and The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry.
Wendell Berry
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Wild and Domestic
I. GARY SNYDER SAID that we know our minds are wild because of the difficulty of making ourselves think what we think we ought to think. Continue reading
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Whitefoot
Her name was Peromyscus leucopus, but she did not know it. I think it had been a long time since the mice around Port William spoke English, let alone Latin. Her Continue reading
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Renewing Husbandry
I REMEMBER WELL A SUMMER MORNING in about 1950 when my father sent a hired man with a McCormick High Gear No. 9 mowing machine and a team of mules to Continue reading
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Compromise, Hell!
WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY — I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide Continue reading
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A Citizen’s Response to the National Security Strategy
America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law. –Katherine Lee Bates, “America the Beautiful” I.The new national security strategy published by Continue reading
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The Agrarian Standard
Twenty-five years after the publication of his landmark book, The Unsettling of America, the author reflects on the state of agricultural life in America. Continue reading
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Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
I.THE TIME WILL SOON COME when we will not be able to remember the horrors of September 11 without remembering also the unquestioning technological and economic optimism that ended on that Continue reading
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The Idea of a Local Economy
A TOTAL ECONOMY is one in which everything — “life forms,” for instance, — or the “right to pollute” is “private property” and has a price and is for sale. In Continue reading
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In Distrust of Movements
I have had with my friend Wes Jackson a number of useful conversations about the necessity of getting out of movements—even movements that have seemed necessary and dear to us—when they Continue reading