Wendell Berry (1934 - present)

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Farmer, Essayist, Conservationist, Novelist, Teacher, Poet, 1934 - “The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful.” Wendell Berry was born in Newcastle, Kentucky. He continues to farm the land along the Kentucky River that his family has worked for two centuries. A graduate of the University of Kentucky. Berry has taught Engl.. Continue..

Some of Wendell Berry Poems

The peace of wild things

A Meeting

Sabbaths 2001

The Man Born to Farming

The Real Work

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	Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

- Wendell Berry

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