Wendell Berry | Agriculture for a Small Planet Symposium July 1, 1974
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Today marks the 40th Anniversary of Wendell Berry's speech about the culture of agriculture that was delivered at the "Agriculture for a Small Planet" Symposium in Spokane, Washington. The first few lines of this speech, written on a yellow legal pad in route to the symposium, inspired his book The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture published in 1977. Berry's speech was also a catalyst for the launch of the Tilth Movement in the Pacific Northwest.
"Your symposium, as well as a lot of other meetings I've been to in other parts of the country, proves the literature of a thoughtful and even known constituency for a better kind of agriculture," wrote Berry in a letter to Gigi Coe and Bob Stilger following the Symposium (July 4, 1974).
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Wendell Berry, prophet of America, giving voice to the needs and spirit of our country. He should be required reading in high schools and colleges.
Not only an opportunity to witness Berry's amazing intellect and vision, but a way to see his consistency over his lifetime.
If nothing else this taping demonstrates a quality much lacking in our society these days - consistency. His urgent topic was consistently delivered with a gentle tone and still is. As someone discovering him later in life finding his message being delivered the same when I was 4 years old as it is now that I am nearly 50 is an inspiration.
Maybe the greatest speech I have ever heard, it educates, amuses, and emotionally connects. I am utterly impressed with every single thing he says.
@Wendell_Berry - "What I wish to speak for here is the discipline in the Human character that makes him able to forebear and restrain himself when he's doing obvious damage to other people..." #OMG how I wish I (and many others, especially those at the "top") had been aware of Wendell's insights in 1974! Timeless wisdom!
Thanks very much for sharing this!
Thank you.
The truth is the truth, conservation will never change no matter the generation. God bless you Sir Wendell Berry, I'm so much motivated by your work.
What a way to end. 👌🏾👏🏾
This is an honest and explanatory description of the state of ALL modern grand industries......where small sustainable families and communities that have been forced and shifted to going "big" or otherwise if not, move away to the cities, to ironically live close to a produce market. .
I can't describe it as well as Wendell does.
I'm a city-boy, born in the city (53yo). But I find it much more satisfying to grow my city garden, than to grow things on my computer. There is, for me, a unique satisfaction when my actions "agree" with nature.
Maybe that's the reason I enjoy gardening so much.
Maybe that's the reason I go to remote camping trips "for fun and respite".
Maybe that's the reason I and other city-folk often plan our retirement and death among the trees and homes of hoots of owls in the night.
We have to appreciate Wendell Berry's insights. What is the relationship between science and technology and the practical, sustainable use of land, crops and livestock. In my opinion, we need to look back to learn to move forward. Returning people to familiarity with the land is progressive.
I just shared this again with Regrarians Ltd. on facebook - facebook.com/search/str/Regrarians/keywords_top
I totally agree. Our society today has lost it's connection to the very basis of life and as a result, has lost its' understanding of the moral obligation to each other and to the earth that sustains us all.
@@ianBeer123 , with the bankruptcy rate of family farms up 20% from previous years and farming conglomerates and foreign interests buying up farm land and water rights in the US, getting people closer the land is far less likely.
Holy Cow! That is a beauty. Many, many thanks to the Berry Center for posting this. Once again I'm amazed at how ahead-of-his-time Mr. Berry was. Would be nice to share it with a few million folks :)
It's not just the content of Berry's assessment and vision in this that reaches down and grabs hold of the soul now, demanding your attention forty years after the fact (how bleeping amazing is that!?), it's the way he says it. Being the offshoot of college sweethearts from Hickory, North Carolina and Cripple Creek, Virginia, respectively, and raised over in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Berry sounds more than a little like someone I might have run into at a Riggle family reunion. Thanks also for the background regarding this being the inspiration for The Unsettling of America and other information available on your website. I highly recommend folks take a look around BerryCenter.org Regards to all from Sonoma County & the Petaluma Grange.
Its always amazing on how the times have changed but the conversation remains the same. What does that tell us?
people are not very smart
thank you for uploading and sharing this. I recently got turned onto wendell berry , and he immediately reminded me of walt whitman, emerson, and thoreau in the same beautiful sense of the transcendentalists.
Here's the RUclips page for Berry's presentation.
50 years ago. Is this about urban agriculture and city farming before it is now known?
10 years later, the grocery store price has sky rocket 🚀 making the average Joe broke and it'll keep rise if nothing is done.
Read his essay , The Hidden Wound . About racism , history and the story white families tell themselves to make themselves feel better about using enslaved labor