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Conversations with Wendell Berry

Conversations with Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

So the opportunities for working with my father weren't all that available, but there were other people I worked for and with from the time I was very young. Beattie: Did you think, when you were a child, that 61 Wendell Berry L Elisabeth Beattie.
New Collected Poems

New Collected Poems

Wendell Berry

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Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental ...

Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental ...

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a revelation, a symbol of the nature-minded agrarianism Berry himself popularized.
What Are People For?: Essays

What Are People For?: Essays

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry identifies himself as both “a farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts,” which he deftly illustrates in the scope of these 22 essays.
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

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.
Standing by Words: Essays

Standing by Words: Essays

Wendell Berry

Standing by Words joins our new series, which celebrates the collected essays of Wendell Berry in beautiful, uniform editions.
Our Only World: Ten Essays

Our Only World: Ten Essays

Wendell Berry

And we citizens are left with a shell of what was once proudly described as The American Dream. In this new collection of eleven essays, Berry confronts head-on the necessity of clear thinking and direct action.
Wendell Berry: Life and Work

Wendell Berry: Life and Work

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A portrait of one of America's most profound and honest thinkers, this book combines biographical sketches, personal accounts, literary criticism, and social commentary to illuminate Berry as he is: a complex man of place and community with ...
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

Wendell Berry

With the publication of this new complete edition, it is becoming increasingly clear that The Sabbath Poems have become the very heart of Berry’s entire work.
"The Length of Our Vision": Thoreau, Berry, and Sustainability

"The Length of Our Vision": Thoreau, Berry, and Sustainability

Jared Andrew Gibbs

Following this investigation, I examine two works that offer critiques of progress: Thoreau's classic text, Walden, and Wendell Berry's, The Unsettling of America. These texts are chosen for a few reasons.
Buildings of Historic and Architectural Signifcance

Buildings of Historic and Architectural Signifcance

Kingston, Ont. Committee of Architectural Review

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Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food

Wendell Berry

Drawn from more than thirty years of work, this collection is essential reading for all who care about what they eat.
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming

Masanobu Fukuoka

As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book “is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

G. Edward White

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 16, 1876, Harvard University Archives. The letter is quoted in White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 112. 10. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., diary entry, June 17, 1872, Holmes papers. 11.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court ...

Susan-Mary Grant

®Autobiographical. Sketch, ̄ 1861 (Harvard Class Album) 2x Oliver Wendell Holmes« Civil War Diary (Ball«s Bluff) 3x Oliver Wendell Holmes to Father: December 10, 1862 4x Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ...
Muscle, Smoke, and Mirrors

Muscle, Smoke, and Mirrors

Randy Roach

7 Mark Berry was a serious frustration for Hoffman. With Strength magazine folding along with the Milo Barbell Company, Hoffman tried to get Berry to come and work for him. Berry declined and to fuel the flames even further, Berry was again ...
Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry

Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry

David Fleming

Thinking that his Mother did not notice, Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry does something his Mother asked him not to, and spends the whole day feeling bad about it. How will Charlie Blue Berry Fipple Berry explain what he has done?
Imagination in Place: Essays

Imagination in Place: Essays

Wendell Berry

Features essays that express the author's thoughts on subjects ranging from his former mentor, Wallace Stregner, and Shakespeare to religion, adversity, and the Civil War.
Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals ...

Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals ...

Bill Kauffman

Combines history, memoir, and profiles of radical figures to introduce American political counterculture, highlighting such unorthodox thinkers as Dorothy Day, Grant Wood, and Wendell Berry.
Fidelity: five stories

Fidelity: five stories

Wendell Berry

Continues the story of the Port William membership, exploring the love, trust, and wisdom of people modern society often neglects--small farmers, householders, people who work the land and know their roots
A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

Wendell Berry

The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. “It seemed to me,” Horenbein wrote, “that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence ...

Allen Mendenhall

Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Baroness Marie Moncheur, July 16, 1910. Harvard University Holmes Digital Suite. Mark DeWolfe Howe's research materials on Holmes, 1858-1968: Finding Aid, October 1909- 1910.
Citizenship Papers

Citizenship Papers

Wendell Berry

Books get written for all sorts of reasons, and this book was written out of necessity. Citizenship Papers, a collection of 19 essays, is a ringing call of alarm to a nation standing on the brink of global catastrophe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Legal Theory, and Judicial Restraint

Frederic R. Kellogg

The journal of his reading, which he kept from 1865. 1 Howe, Justice Oliver WendellHolmes: TheProvingYears, 11–25, 96; White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 130. 2 Little, “The Early Reading of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,” 80 6 ...
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership

A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership

Wendell Berry

In twenty stories spanning from 1864 to modern times, residents of Port William reflect on their lives spent in the pastoral town.
Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country

Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country

Courtney White

Quotes are from a series of short essays written by Annie Novak for The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/annie-novak/. 2. Brooklyn Grange's website: www. brooklyngrangefarm.com/. 3. “The Agrarian Standard,” by Wendell Berry; in Citizenship ...
Jayber Crow: The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the ...

Jayber Crow: The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the ...

Wendell Berry

In a novel set in a small-town "Heaven," the rural Kentucky farmer-philosopher returns to his fictional Port William to explore themes of love, suffering, and joy. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
The Mayflower Descendant,: Volume 34 1937

The Mayflower Descendant,: Volume 34 1937

Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants Staff

... augt 27 : 1788 Mary Bery Daughter of Jonathan & Hannah Berry born July 4th 1769 Pedea Berry Daughter to Jonathan & Hannah Berry born Sept 2 : 1771 David Berry Son to the Said Jonathan & Hannah born augt 15 : 1773 Jonathan Berry ...
The Long-Legged House

The Long-Legged House

Wendell Berry

Three essays at the heart of this volume-?The Rise,” ?The Long-Legged House,” and ?A Native Hill” -are essays of homecoming and memoir, as the writer finds his home place, his native ground, his place on earth.

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