Wendell Berry
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born
August 05, 1934
gender
male
place of birth
Kentucky, The United States
genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Outdoors & Nature
about this author
Wendell Berry is a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English and poet. He was born August 5, 1934 in Henry County, Kentucky where he now lives on a farm. The New York Times has called Berry the "prophet of rural America."
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Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.30 — 714 ratings — published 2000 6 editions |
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Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.20 — 397 ratings — published 2004 5 editions |
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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.41 — 370 ratings — published 1978 5 editions |
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Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.21 — 382 ratings — published 1993 2 editions |
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What Are People For? by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.18 — 340 ratings — published 1990 4 editions |
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The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.37 — 310 ratings — published 1987 |
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.34 — 263 ratings — published 2002 4 editions |
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Fidelity: Five Stories by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.29 — 235 ratings — published 1992 2 editions |
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The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.23 — 222 ratings — published 1974 6 editions |
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Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition by Wendell Berry avg rating 4.02 — 183 ratings — published 2000 3 editions |
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"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
— Wendell Berry (Farming: a hand book)
— Wendell Berry (Farming: a hand book)
"There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings."
— Wendell Berry
— Wendell Berry
"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
— Wendell Berry (Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays)
— Wendell Berry (Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays)
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