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Jayber Crow (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,918 ratings — published 2000
Hannah Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,516 ratings — published 2004
Nathan Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,372 ratings — published 1960
A Place on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,922 ratings — published 1966
Remembering (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,604 ratings — published 1988
The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
by (shelved 33 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,391 ratings — published 1974
Fidelity: Five Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,260 ratings — published 1992
A World Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,289 ratings — published 1996
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,278 ratings — published 2002
Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,684 ratings — published 2006
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,104 ratings — published 1977
What Are People For? (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,998 ratings — published 1990
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,075 ratings — published 1986
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Port William)
by (shelved 21 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,842 ratings — published 2002
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,054 ratings — published 2009
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,018 ratings — published 2002
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,268 ratings — published 1993
Watch With Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 808 ratings — published 1994
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.52 — 846 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Wound (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,151 ratings — published 2005
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,509 ratings — published 2017
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,758 ratings — published 1998
Home Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 813 ratings — published 1987
Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,318 ratings — published 2000
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.23 — 474 ratings — published
Standing by Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.17 — 340 ratings — published 1982
Our Only World: Ten Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,015 ratings — published 2015
Given (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.24 — 931 ratings — published 2005
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.43 — 587 ratings — published 1981
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.17 — 817 ratings — published 2005
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.36 — 727 ratings — published 2022
New Collected Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.46 — 749 ratings — published 2012
The Country of Marriage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.31 — 549 ratings — published 1973
The Long-Legged House (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.52 — 295 ratings — published 1966
The Mad Farmer Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.54 — 725 ratings — published 2008
Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 630 ratings — published
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.48 — 84 ratings — published 1997
Leavings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,114 ratings — published 2009
It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 355 ratings — published 2012
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,524 ratings — published 1998
Marce Catlett (A Port William Novel)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.00 — 979 ratings — published 2025
A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.97 — 480 ratings — published 2016
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,798 ratings — published 1985
Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.99 — 229 ratings — published 2008
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,619 ratings — published 1987
Peace Of Wild Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,053 ratings — published
The Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.56 — 286 ratings — published 1995
Farming: A Hand Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.28 — 366 ratings — published 1970
Three Short Novels: Nathan Coulter/Remembering/a World Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.14 — 294 ratings — published 2002
Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.15 — 385 ratings — published 2005
“From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the slave states, went to church with their slaves, were baptized with them, and presumably expected to associate with them in heaven. Again, I have been years realizing what this means, and what it has cost.
First, consider the moral predicament of the master who sat in church with his slaves, thus attesting his belief in the immortality of the souls of people whose bodies he owned and used. He thus placed his body, if not his mind, at the very crux of the deepest contradiction of his life. How could he presume to own the body of a man whose soul he considered as worthy of salvation as his own? To keep this question from articulating itself in his thoughts and demanding an answer, he had to perfect an empty space in his mind, a silence, between heavenly concerns and earthly concerns, between body and spirit. If there had ever opened a conscious connection between the two claims, if the two sides of his mind had ever touched, it would have been like building a fire in a house full of gunpowder: somewhere down deep in his mind he always knew of the danger, and his nerves were always alert to it.”
― The Hidden Wound
First, consider the moral predicament of the master who sat in church with his slaves, thus attesting his belief in the immortality of the souls of people whose bodies he owned and used. He thus placed his body, if not his mind, at the very crux of the deepest contradiction of his life. How could he presume to own the body of a man whose soul he considered as worthy of salvation as his own? To keep this question from articulating itself in his thoughts and demanding an answer, he had to perfect an empty space in his mind, a silence, between heavenly concerns and earthly concerns, between body and spirit. If there had ever opened a conscious connection between the two claims, if the two sides of his mind had ever touched, it would have been like building a fire in a house full of gunpowder: somewhere down deep in his mind he always knew of the danger, and his nerves were always alert to it.”
― The Hidden Wound
“Como Wendell Berry, acredito na possibilidade de restaurar nossa esperança em um mundo que transcenda a raça ao formar comunidades nas quais a autoestima não seja resultado do sentimento de superioridade sobre qualquer grupo, mas do nosso relacionamento com a terra, com as pessoas, com o lugar, onde quer que estejamos.”
― Belonging: A Culture of Place
― Belonging: A Culture of Place
