by Jonell Galloway
There’s probably no better short overview of Wendell Berry‘s views on agriculture and sustainability than Mark Bittman‘s interview of Berry in The New York Times in 2012.
Wendell Berry speaking in Frankfort, Indiana
Here are a few excerpts about agriculture and sustainability:
“That’s one of Wendell’s recurring themes: Listen to the land.”
“If you imitate nature, you’ll use the land wisely.”
“The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.”
Mark Bittman (Photo credit: rebuildingdemocracy)
“You can describe the predicament that we’re in as an emergency, and your trial is to learn to be patient in an emergency.”
“[N]o great feat is going to happen to change all this; you’re going to have to humble yourself to be willing to do it one little bit at a time. You can’t make people do this. What you have to do is notice that they’re already doing it.”
“I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.”
Read The New York Times entire article here.
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