The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
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'He is unlike anybody else writing today ... After Donald Trump's election, we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America. An essential part of that story is Wendell Berry. Few of us can live, or even aspire to, his kind of life. But nobody can risk ignoring him' Andrew Marr 'Wendell Berry is the most important writer and thinker that you have (probably) never heard of. He is an American sage' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life Wendell Berry is 'something of an anachronism'. He began his life as the old times and the last of the old-time people were dying out, and continues to this day in the old ways: a team of work horses and a pencil are his preferred working tools. 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 defence of the local landscapes that provide our cultural heritage, our history, our home. In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out to defend the land we live on. With grace and conviction, he shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy. The natural world will not withstand 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 neighbours, and ourselves with respect and care. We must, as Berry urges, abandon arrogance and stand in awe. Review: Wendell forever - If you lack a reliable moral code, read Wendell. He sets the course straight. A little wordy for my taste (as an author), but the message is worth it's weight in gold (keeping in mind that wood is one of the rareset resources in the known universe). Review: Interessante - Offre riflessioni non “mainstream” . In particolare fornisce all’idea della protezione e salvaguardia delle natura un approccio non ideologico ma basato sul buon senso
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Wendell forever
If you lack a reliable moral code, read Wendell. He sets the course straight. A little wordy for my taste (as an author), but the message is worth it's weight in gold (keeping in mind that wood is one of the rareset resources in the known universe).
R**I
Interessante
Offre riflessioni non “mainstream” . In particolare fornisce all’idea della protezione e salvaguardia delle natura un approccio non ideologico ma basato sul buon senso
R**.
Think Little
Think Little is just one of the essays in the collection. It's the one that I found way back in 1970 when it was written and published in the hippies companion The Whole Earth Catalog (amongst other places). I was sold on his ideas and have recently re-read it twice. Twice, because Wendell Berry's ideas about how the world is run, how agriculture is practised are as relevant today as they were when he wrote in 1970. Visionary writing can so often look misguided after half a century - this really doesn't because his views are now so evidently correct - well to me, and certainly to a great many others. I recommend that if you are interested, you should start by reading Think Little and consider it in view even of the recent Extinction Rebellion movement. Here is a man with a view which shows how things might have been and how they could be. It makes for inspiring and interesting, educational reading, even though, to my mind, there is faint hope of it coming to pass - but every little helps. His words and this work must be passed on.
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World -Ending Fire : The Essential Wendell. WEndell Berry.
Still 'walking through it' with Wendell! Very enjoyable so far! :)
T**M
Beautiful insights, well written
Wendell Berry is a modern classic. I imagine that I'll reread this several times
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