Our Only World (eBook)
196 Seiten
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-61902-522-6 (ISBN)
"Stern but compassionate, author Wendell Berry raises broader issues that environmentalists rarely focus on . . . In one sense Berry is the voice of a rural agrarian tradition that stretches from rural Kentucky back to the origins of human civilization. But his insights are universal because Our Only World is filled with beautiful, compassionate writing and careful, profound thinking."
—Associated Press
The planet's environmental problems respect no national boundaries. From soil erosion and population displacement to climate change and failed energy policies, American governing classes are paid by corporations to pretend that debate is the only democratic necessity and that solutions are capable of withstanding endless delay. Late Capitalism goes about its business of finishing off the planet. And we citizens are left with a shell of what was once proudly described as The American Dream.
In this collection of eleven essays, Berry confronts head-on the necessity of clear thinking and direct action. Never one to ignore the present challenge, he understands that only clearly stated questions support the understanding their answers require. For more than fifty years we've had no better spokesman and no more eloquent advocate for the planet, for our families, and for the future of our children and ourselves.
Essayist, novelist, and poet, Wendell Berry has written more than thirty books. He lives and works in his native Kentucky with his wife, Tanya Berry, and their children and grandchildren.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.2015 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | a continuous harmony • agrarian essays • American author • andy catlett • an eastward look • another turn of the crank • a place in time • A Place on Earth • a world lost • blessed are the pearcemakers • books about american life • books about american nature • books about ecosystems • books about nature • books about nature and the soul • Bringing it to the Table • captain jamew w berry • citizens dissent • citizenship papers • country of marriage • descendants and ancestors • distant neighbors • Ecology • environmental essays • environmentalist author • expectations of land • farming • farming and food • fidelity • Gary Snyder • Grace • Hannah Coulter • harlan hubbard • hidden wound • Home economics • imagination in place • in the presence of fear • Jayber Crow • kentucky author • life is a miracle • long legged house • memory of old jack • Nathan Coulter • nature and humanity • nature essays • nature fiction • nature poet • nature poetry • Nature writing • nautre author • nautre meditations • Openings • our only world • remembering • renewed commonwelth • roots to the earth • sabbath poems • sayings and doings • small porch • standing by words • standing on earth • sustainable agriculture • terrapin • that distant land • the art of the commonplace • the broken groundlnovember twenty six • the gift of good land • the gift of gravity • the mad farmer poems • the way of ignorance • the wheel • tobacco harvest • traveling at home • unforseen wilderness • unsettling of america • watch with me • Wendel Barry • Wendel Berry • Wendell barry • Wendell Bary • Wendell Bery • what are people for • whitefoot • wild birds • window poems |
ISBN-10 | 1-61902-522-1 / 1619025221 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61902-522-6 / 9781619025226 |
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