Wendell Berry
Born: 08-04-1934
Wendell Berry is an acclaimed American author, poet, essayist, and environmental activist known for his profound reflections on nature, community, and sustainable living. Born in 1934 in Kentucky, Berry's work often explores the intricate relationship between humans and the land. With a career spanning several decades, he has published numerous novels, essays, and poetry collections, earning accolades for his insightful commentary on modern society and its environmental impact.
Book summaries for books written by Wendell Berry
Quotes
Remembering doesn't serve me. It just makes me sad. So I try not to remember.
We are all creatures of a day; the rememberers and the remembered alike.
There is always more to remember than you can hold in your hand at once.
You can't give up hope just because it's hopeless. You gotta hope even more, and cover your ears and go 'blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah!'
To know your place is to be satisfied with and grateful for the small patch of ground that is yours on earth.
The present is always waiting to happen, like the dawn, like the weather.
To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.
You can't grieve forever. You've got to move on.
The past is the root of the present. Every living thing is attached by its past to something larger than itself.
The only way to be is to be a member of a place or a community.
The best way to be happy is to be useful.
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.