Reads tagged with “Wendell Berry”
Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest
How to Think Like a Sunflower: Wendell Berry on Turning Conflict into Collaboration
“We are not the authors of ourselves. That we are not is a religious perception, but it is also a biological and a social one. Each of us has had many authors, and each of us is engaged, for better or worse, in that same authorship. We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another.”
The Best of Brain Pickings 2019
Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees.
Against the Slippery Slope of Injustice: Amanda Palmer Reads Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire”
The road to moral hell is paved with gradual self-permission.
Wendell Berry on How to Be a Poet and a Complete Human Being
“Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill…”
How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love
The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated
On where to seek refuge from the forethought of grief.
The Measure of a Rich Life: Wendell Berry on Delight as a Force of Resistance and the Key to Felicitous Sanity During Hardship
“The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom… is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums.”
A Benediction on the World: Wendell Berry on Creaturely Joy
“The joy, less deniable in its evidence than the peacefulness, is the confirmation of it.”
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