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WENDELL BERRY is the author of more than two dozen books, including Fidelity, What Are People For? and The Unsettling of America. He lives and writes on his farm in Kentucky and teaches at the University of Kentucky.
"Berry once again carves out a unique position in American social
debate; not liberal (he hates big government), not libertarian (he
would balance individual rights along with those of the
commonwealth), but always sharp-tongued and aglow with common
sense."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Berry's words are those of a steward. He is trying to preserve
that which is intimate, honest, and good. He is an intense, angry,
but always caring critic of American culture. His aim is to install
a sense of mission that would cause his readers to begin to
build--or rebuild--their local communities."
--Lexington Herald-Leader
"Wendell Berry is among our wisest and most clear-sighted thinkers;
one can hardly speak of him without the word 'prophetic' coming to
mind. Writing with grace and sanity from his Kentucky farmstead,
his words contain enough common sense to turn absurdity on its
head, and because the truth is both simpler and more subtle than
any ideology, to challenge the assumptions of every one of our
shallow ideological camps."
--Caelum et Terra
"Read [him] 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 Book Review More praise for Wendell Berry:
The Gift of Good Land
"Our hope is here. And here is a human being speaking with calm and
sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him."
--The Washington Post Book World
Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
"In prose as transparent and healing as a clear mountain lake
[Berry] emerges as a prophetic conscience of the nation. An
important, humane book."
--Publishers Weekly
"Wendell Berry is a good novelist, a fine poet, and the best
essayist now working in America."
--Edward Abbey "Berry is a rare human being, a man of honesty and
grace, a man deeply in love with life. And his essays will endure
for the same reason that those of Thoreau and E. B. White and
Wallce Stegner endure, because they speak not only to the human
heart and mind, but also to the condition of the human spirit . .
."
--Harry Middleton, The Philadelphia Enquirer
What Are People For?
"He is . . . the prophetic voice of our day."
--Page Smith, The Christian Science Monitor
Berry once again carves out a unique position in American social
debate; not liberal (he hates big government), not libertarian (he
would balance individual rights along with those of the
commonwealth), but always sharp-tongued and aglow with common
sense.
Kirkus Reviews
Berry s words are those of a steward. He is trying to preserve that
which is intimate, honest, and good. He is an intense, angry, but
always caring critic of American culture. His aim is to install a
sense of mission that would cause his readers to begin to build or
rebuild their local communities.
Lexington Herald-Leader
Wendell Berry is among our wisest and most clear-sighted thinkers;
one can hardly speak of him without the word prophetic coming to
mind. Writing with grace and sanity from his Kentucky farmstead,
his words contain enough common sense to turn absurdity on its
head, and because the truth is both simpler and more subtle than
any ideology, to challenge the assumptions of every one of our
shallow ideological camps.
Caelum et Terra
"Read[him] 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 Book Review
More praise for Wendell Berry:
The Gift of Good Land
Our hope is here. And here is a human being speaking with calm and
sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him.
The Washington Post Book World
Recollected Essays, 1965 1980
In prose as transparent and healing as a clear mountain lake
[Berry] emerges as a prophetic conscience of the nation. An
important, humane book.
Publishers Weekly
Wendell Berry is a good novelist, a fine poet, and the best
essayist now working in America.
Edward Abbey
Berry is a rare human being, a man of honesty and grace, a man
deeply in love with life. And his essays will endure for the same
reason that those of Thoreau and E. B. White and Wallce Stegner
endure, because they speak not only to the human heart and mind,
but also to the condition of the human spirit . . .
Harry Middleton, The Philadelphia Enquirer
What Are People For?
He is . . . the prophetic voice of our day.
Page Smith, The Christian Science Monitor"
"Berry once again carves out a unique position in American social
debate; not liberal (he hates big government), not libertarian (he
would balance individual rights along with those of the
commonwealth), but always sharp-tongued and aglow with common
sense."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Berry's words are those of a steward. He is trying to preserve
that which is intimate, honest, and good. He is an intense, angry,
but always caring critic of American culture. His aim is to install
a sense of mission that would cause his readers to begin to
build--or rebuild--their local communities."
--Lexington Herald-Leader
"Wendell Berry is among our wisest and most clear-sighted thinkers;
one can hardly speak of him without the word 'prophetic' coming to
mind. Writing with grace and sanity from his Kentucky farmstead,
his words contain enough common sense to turn absurdity on its
head, and because the truth is both simpler and more subtle than
any ideology, to challenge the assumptions of every one of our
shallow ideological camps."
--Caelum et Terra
"Read [him] 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 Book Review More praise for Wendell
Berry:
The Gift of Good Land
"Our hope is here. And here is a human being speaking with calm and
sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him."
--The Washington Post Book World
Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
"In prose as transparent and healing as a clear mountain lake
[Berry] emerges as a prophetic conscience of the nation. An
important, humane book."
--Publishers Weekly
"Wendell Berry is a good novelist, a fine poet, and the best
essayist now working in America."
--Edward Abbey "Berry is a rare human being, a man of honesty and
grace, a man deeply in love with life. And his essays will endure
for the same reason that those of Thoreau and E. B. White and
Wallce Stegner endure, because they speak not only to the human
heart and mind, but also to the condition of the human spirit . .
."
--Harry Middleton, The Philadelphia Enquirer
What Are People For?
"He is . . . the prophetic voice of our day."
--Page Smith, The Christian Science Monitor
Berry once again carves out a unique position in American social
debate; not liberal (he hates big government), not libertarian (he
would balance individual rights along with those of the
commonwealth), but always sharp-tongued and aglow with common
sense.
Kirkus Reviews
Berry s words are those of a steward. He is trying to preserve that
which is intimate, honest, and good. He is an intense, angry, but
always caring critic of American culture. His aim is to install a
sense of mission that would cause his readers to begin to build or
rebuild their local communities.
Lexington Herald-Leader
Wendell Berry is among our wisest and most clear-sighted thinkers;
one can hardly speak of him without the word prophetic coming to
mind. Writing with grace and sanity from his Kentucky farmstead,
his words contain enough common sense to turn absurdity on its
head, and because the truth is both simpler and more subtle than
any ideology, to challenge the assumptions of every one of our
shallow ideological camps.
Caelum et Terra
"Read[him] 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 Book Review
More praise for Wendell Berry:
The Gift of Good Land
Our hope is here. And here is a human being speaking with calm and
sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him.
The Washington Post Book World
Recollected Essays, 1965 1980
In prose as transparent and healing as a clear mountain lake
[Berry] emerges as a prophetic conscience of the nation. An
important, humane book.
Publishers Weekly
Wendell Berry is a good novelist, a fine poet, and the best
essayist now working in America.
Edward Abbey
Berry is a rare human being, a man of honesty and grace, a man
deeply in love with life. And his essays will endure for the same
reason that those of Thoreau and E. B. White and Wallce Stegner
endure, because they speak not only to the human heart and mind,
but also to the condition of the human spirit . . .
Harry Middleton, The Philadelphia Enquirer
What Are People For?
He is . . . the prophetic voice of our day.
Page Smith, The Christian Science Monitor"
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