Posts Tagged ‘Wendell Berry’

topless america

watch this, and re-read Wendell Berry & Wes Jackson’s 50 Year Farm Bill piece from last January

Topless America.org
Over 520 Appalachian Mountains have been destroyed, covering and poisoning more than 2,000 miles of headwater streams due to Mountaintop Removal coal mining. More than 7 percent of Appalachian forests have been cut [...]

A visit to my fairy godmother’s perch in Pt. Reyes Station. Barbara is a lepidopterist, a xercian butterfly gardener, a naturalist, a thinker. She reminds me about the integrity of ecosytems, and the butterflies about the peace of wild things.

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows [...]