Wendell Berry dies at 92
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things RIP Wendell Berry
spidermcg.bsky.social15read by its author ♥️ onbeing.org/poetry/the-p...
Andrew S8"The Peace of Wild Things"
ruffian51.bsky.social7This is sad news, indeed. Another comforting light in the middle this storm gone. And now to the Abyss I pass, of the Unfathomable Grass.
JanOMalley37The poem is lovely. The RIP is heartbreaking.
swazyland.bsky.social5Nature is my cure for anxiety
Thanks you for sharing this tribute.
Repost from @westernwatersheds • In “The Peace of Wild Things,” poet and conservationist, Wendell Berry gave words to the solace we find in places beyond human noise and well, despair. That peace lives in rivers, grasslands, forests, deserts, and the wildlife that depend on them. (Cont'd)
Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦3Berry will be considered one of these nations greatest writers! 
Sai On Blue Sky3Can we take a moment to remember this gracious man and his poetry? Please? Remember, Americans, you gave birth to this man too, and other poets, like Mary Oliver, Walt Whitman ... that's the America I'm remembering.
Juliet A. Camp2🙏 Thank-you for this!. Love him.
I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.
Le Cagle29In 2011, Barry pulled all of his papers from the University of Kentucky archives after the uni took a $7 million donation from a coal baron and in exchange named the basketball team's bespoke living quarters the "Wildcat Coal Lodge."
Cate Denial2Thank you for posting the whole thing!
David Emmett1Thank you. I did not know that poem. It's brutally clear, and wonderfully put.
Wendell Berry, friend and comrade in many fights and perhaps the writer who meant the most to me, is dead at 92. An appreciation--and a contrast with Elon Musk, in every way his vile opposite billmckibben.substack.com/p/two-men?r=...
C. J. Fitzpatrick4I often stop to read one of my favorite poems of his that is permanently on display at a beautiful meadow near me. He wouldn't mind that it's covered in bird poo!
Carter Brooks3My favorite quote from a question and answer session decades ago, in response to “can we responsibly have children give population problems?” He said, “if you think you are reasonably intelligent, and think you can raise reasonably intelligent children…
Third Act Maine3Sorry for the loss of your friend and a good man.
Forest Goddess2The difference between a real man and a monster. Such a huge loss for us all, but especially anyone fortunate to have been his friend. My condolences.
gmokery2Met him once at New Alchemy Institute Harvest Festival in the 1980s I was asked to read his "Mad Farmer Liberation Front" to open a conference on The Natural Step (remember that?) Donella Meadows then came up to show me her copy in her notebook though we never exchanged a word Great soul gone
Matthieu Guyot54Bel hommage à Wendell Berry, où l’on découvre que le DOGE d’Elon Musk a annulé une collaboration entre l’USAID et la NASA portant sur la prévision des inondations, l’alerte précoce, la préparation aux catastrophes, l’inventaire des glaciers et la cartographie des lacs glaciaires dangereux au Népal.
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇3Oh no. RIP to Wendell Berry, one of the greats.
Nick Offerman was -- is -- a fervent admirer of Wendell Berry, and was able to spend time with him. He wrote about their relationship in 2023. www.outsideonline.com/culture/essa...
Peter Sagal53The producers of Parks and Rec ended up grafting some of Nick's enthusiasms to his character, Ron Swanson -- most especially woodworking, but also the novels of Patrick O'Brien -- but I don't remember if Wendell Berry ever got a name check on that show.
bskwitter.bsky.social2Great essay, which (of course) I heard in my head as Offerman's voice
latho17.bsky.social1Why am i not surprised? When Dolly died, i started a list of angels who walk among us. I put Yo Yo Ma on the list today. I will add Mr Offerman AND the voice of the farmer, Mr Berry.
Jibblescribbits1I was introduced to Berry through Offerman's "Where the Dear and the Antelope Play" (Perfect Road trip audio book, btw) Now every Berry poem or writing I read is internally in Offerman's voice.
Alex wants musubi.1Nick was the first person I thought of when I saw this news.
edehlert.bsky.social1It's sad that Wendell had to spend his last days watching his dedication to clean, safe food be ignored by this regime.
Shit, not Wendell Berry. I had really only recently begun reading his work through my friend @bryanzug.bsky.social. It was this what got me into him. What a voice.
Lomelindi1219They unhinder what has struggled in them, The light, painfully loved, that narrowed And darkened in their minds Becomes again the sky. #RIP Wendell 😔
Luvbug2Wendell Berry changed my life when I read Memory of Old Jack at around 18. It dealt with concepts far beyond my young years, but in it I recognized a life I had always longed for without yet knowing. One of our finest, gone.
Wendell Berry 💔 The Peace of Wild Things is one of my most cherished reading experiences. This poem in particular (not least because the 2nd of Feb is my birthday). The last line feels like a particularly important instruction right now.
Roger Protz13RIP Wendell Berry. Not a household name in the UK but a great American advocate for the environment, & a fine poet.
Stewart Parsons5Ah, Wendell Berry. Another good one checks out and what a lovely, soulful, enriching body of work he leaves in his wake - simple words beautifully organised on the page to work wonders on your spirit and soul. Go well, Wendell.
