• I would have to live to twice that age before I could do consciously what I wanted so much then to do. And even now I can only do it occasionally." - Wendell Berry.
  • Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contempora...
  • We’re accompanied by the meditative and prophetic poetry of Wendell Berry, read for us from his home in Kentucky: “Stay away from anything / that obscures the...
  • Wendell Berry, American author whose nature poetry, novels of America’s rural past, and essays on ecological responsibility grew from his experiences as a farmer.
  • Lewis, the Inklings, and his favorite medieval writers dominated my reading lists in my late teens and most of my twenties. Wendell Berry is the other.
  • In meeting Wendell Berry, my crude vision of him as a sage, mad farmer had died. Wendell Berry the man juxtaposed cleanly with Wendell Berry the writer.
  • Wendell Berry is a farmer, an activist, and the author of numerous essays, poems, novels, and short stories. He has received the National Humanities Medal, a...
  • Wendell Berry’s recent self-described “general declaration” in support of “homosexual marriage” shocked many, fans and critics alike.
  • Wendell Erdman Berry was born on August 5, 1934, in Kentucky, USA. Berry was the first-born amongst his siblings; they were born four siblings in their family.