Wendell Berry spent 92 years insisting that the largest problems in the world are answered, first, in the smallest gestures -- a seed planted, a field tended, a pencil drawn across paper. He trusted that a person who truly learns to belong to a place will naturally want to protect it, and that this quiet belonging is where lasting change begins.
Wendell Berry spent 92 years insisting that the largest problems in the world are answered, first, in the smallest gestures -- a seed planted, a field tended, a pencil drawn across paper.
He trusted that a person who truly learns to belong to a place will naturally want to protect it, and that this quiet belonging is where lasting change begins.
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Wendell Berry spent 92 years insisting that the largest problems in the world are answered, first, in the smallest gestures -- a seed planted, a field tended, a pencil drawn across paper. He trusted that a person who truly learns to belong to a place will naturally want to protect it, and that this quiet belonging is where lasting change begins.
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