Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet

It's mighty hard right now 

to think of anything

that's precious

that isn't endangered.

- Wendell Berry

In a rare television interview, Wendell Berry - the visionary writer, environmentalist and farmer - discusses a sensible, but no-compromise plan to save the Earth.

Watch a preview of the Bill Moyers' interview, which will premiere on 'Moyers & Company' this Friday, Oct. 4: http://billmoyers.com/segment/wendell-berry-poet-prophet

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"Much protest is naive; it expects quick, visible improvement and despairs and gives up when such improvement does not come. Protesters who hold out for longer have perhaps understood that success is not the proper goal. If protest depended on success, there would be little protest of any durability or significance. History simply affords too little evidence that anyone’s individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence."

- Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
“A Poem of Difficult Hope,” What Are People For? (1990)