Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 05. August 1934 |
Geburtsort | Henry County, Kentucky, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Wendell Erdman Berry (geboren am 5. August 1934) ist ein amerikanischer Romanautor, Dichter, Essayist, Umweltaktivist, Kulturkritiker und Landwirt. Er ist gewähltes Mitglied der Fellowship of Southern Writers, Empfänger der National Humanities Medal und Jefferson Lecturer für 2012. Außerdem ist er 2013 Fellow der American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berry wurde 2013 mit dem Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award ausgezeichnet. Am 28. Januar 2015 wurde er als erster lebender Schriftsteller in die Writers Hall of Fame von Kentucky aufgenommen. |
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.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
