![]() ![]() The word husbandry, in his usage, combines the commitments of a spouse with the responsibilities of the farmer to his land and his animals. And those beliefs arise from a longstanding tradition most fully expressed in the American family farm, a self-sustaining economic enterprise that reinforced familial bonds and human obligations to the natural environment. Cheerful in dissent, he writes to document and defend what is being lost to the forces of modernization, and to explain how he lives and what he thinks. Instead of being at odds with his conscience, he is at odds with his times. What we actually think and believe is less a factor in how we live.Īt seventy-seven years old, Wendell Berry continues as a great contrary example to the compromises others take in stride. In moments of weakness, we yield, like tall grass in a strong wind, to forces beyond our control. ![]() For many of us, daily life is not an exercise in conviction. ![]()
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