https://www.deepecology.net/tags/agriculture/Recent content in Agriculture on deep ecologyHugoen-auSun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/quotes/wendell-berry/quote-eating-is-an-agricultural-act-wendell-berry/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/quotes/wendell-berry/quote-eating-is-an-agricultural-act-wendell-berry/<blockquote> <p>Eating is an agricultural act.</p></blockquote>https://www.deepecology.net/posts/profiles/wendell-berry/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/profiles/wendell-berry/<p><img src="https://www.deepecology.net/images/profile_image_wendell_berry.png" alt="Wendell Berry portrait photograph" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </p> <p>Wendell Berry (1934-2026) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist and farmer whose agrarian philosophy of &ldquo;the care of the earth&rdquo; placed sustained attention to land, place and local community at the centre of ethical life. Over nearly seventy years and more than 50 books, he became one of the central voices of American land ethics, bridging agrarian practice, literature and environmental thought.</p> <p>Born in Henry County, Kentucky, into a family that had farmed there for five generations, Berry earned his B.A. (1956) and M.A. (1957) in English at the University of Kentucky, taught at Stanford, NYU and the University of Kentucky, then in 1965 returned with his wife Tanya to Lane&rsquo;s Landing Farm on the Kentucky River at Port Royal - the place that grounded the rest of his life and work. He farmed there, by horse-drawn plough rather than tractor, for over sixty years.</p>https://www.deepecology.net/posts/quotes/wendell-berry/quote-the-care-of-the-earth-is-our-wendell-berry/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.deepecology.net/posts/quotes/wendell-berry/quote-the-care-of-the-earth-is-our-wendell-berry/<blockquote> <p>The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.</p></blockquote>