Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934) is a United States novelist, essayist, philosopher, poet, and farmer. His most well known book, The Unsettling of America, provides a classic critique of industrial agriculture (agribusiness), as contrasted with agrarianism.

Quotes

• "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy."
• "Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."
• "Eating is an agricultural act."
• "Every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing...Love someone who doesn't deserve it...Plant sequoias...Practice resurrection."
• "There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the American flag when we tolerate, encourage, and as a daily business promote the desecration of the Country for which it stands."
• "Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias."
• "Practice resurrection."
• "The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare -- warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself." --Lindsey Wilson College commencement