Wendell Berry Biography

Wendell Berry, Poet

Occup.	Poet
From	USA
Born	August 5, 1934 Henry County, Kentucky
Age	89 years

Wendell Berry is an American author, farmer, and also environmental lobbyist who was born upon August 5, 1934, in Henry Area, Kentucky. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant authors of the late 20th century, and his works usually deal with themes of land stewardship, lasting farming, and the conservation of country communities.

Berry grew up on a tiny family members ranch in Kentucky, where he developed a deep gratitude for the natural world and a solid link to the land. He went to the University of Kentucky, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in English in 1956 as well as a master's level in 1957. He also studied creative creating at Stanford University and finished a Wallace Stegner Fellowship there in 1960.

After completing his education, Berry returned to Kentucky as well as started composing poetry and also fiction, often drawing on his experiences growing up on a ranch. His first book of poetry, "The Broken Ground", was released in 1964, complied with by his first novel, "Nathan Coulter", in 1960. He went on to edit 50 books, including stories, poetry collections, as well as essays.

Along with his writing, Berry has actually also been a vocal advocate for sustainable farming and also the preservation of country areas. He has actually been important of industrial farming and the environmental damages it can create, as well as he has actually promoted the relevance of regional, small-scale farming as a means to shield the land as well as advertise area strength.

Berry has actually gotten various awards and honors throughout his job, including the National Humanities Medal in 2010 and the Jefferson Lectureship in the Humanities in 2012. He has likewise been sworn in right into the American Academy of Arts as well as Sciences and also the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

Despite his success as an author as well as protestor, Berry has actually continued to be rooted in his Kentucky house, where he has actually lived as well as farmed for much of his life. He remains to write and also speak out on issues related to the setting, social justice, as well as the relevance of area as well as localism in a globalized world.

Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Wendell, under the main topics: Nature - History.

Related authors: Wallace Stegner (Novelist), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

Wendell Berry Famous Works:

1974 The Memory of Old Jack (Novel)
1977 The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Book)
2000 Jayber Crow (Novel)
2004 Hannah Coulter (Novel)
2017 The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry (Book)

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12 Famous quotes by Wendell Berry

"We cannot comprehend what comprehends us"

"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"

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods"

"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"

"It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are"

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival"

"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"

"We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?"

"These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more"

"All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days"

"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do"

"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup"