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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
'He is unlike anybody else writing today After Donald Trump's election we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America An essential part of that story is Wendell Berry Few of us can live or even aspire to his kind of life But nobody can risk ignoring him' Andrew Marr'Wendell Berry is the most important writer and thinker that you have (probably) never heard of He is an American sage' James Rebanks author of The Shepherd's Life Wendell Berry is 'something of an anachronism' He began his life as the old times and the last of the old-time people were dying out and continues to this day in the old ways a team of work horses and a pencil are his preferred working tools The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural
Kentucky with mules and horses and of the rich intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defence of the local landscapes that provide our cultural heritage our history our homeIn a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism Wendell Berry speaks out to defend the land we live on With grace and conviction he shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy The natural world will not withstand itYet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope We may be locked in an uneven struggle but we can and must begin to treat our land our neighbours and ourselves with respect and
care We must as Berry urges abandon arrogance and stand in awe
Kentucky with mules and horses and of the rich intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defence of the local landscapes that provide our cultural heritage our history our homeIn a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism Wendell Berry speaks out to defend the land we live on With grace and conviction he shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy The natural world will not withstand itYet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope We may be locked in an uneven struggle but we can and must begin to treat our land our neighbours and ourselves with respect and
care We must as Berry urges abandon arrogance and stand in awe
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