Tag: Wendell Berry
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The Rise of Thoughtlessness
I’ll start with a few lines from a poem by Wendell Berry, one of the nation’s best authors (recently interviewed by Bill Moyers), a writer who is also a draft-horse using farmer in Kentucky. The lines are the first stanza of an untitled poem from Berry’s recent book, Leavings: If we have become a people incapable of thought, then […]
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Wisconsin would do well to heed Wendell Berry
As Wisconsin prepares for the possibility of witnessing the desecration of the Penokee Hills and Bad River watershed, thanks to a proposed iron ore open-pit mine of vast proportions, the first post of this new domain is a link to the recent interview Bill Moyers conducted with the poet, writer and farmer Wendell Berry. Berry has […]
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