This month we will be celebrating the lead-up to Earth Day 2021 with readings by Mary Berry from her father's essay "Solving for Pattern" written in 1980 and then published in his book "The Gift of Good Land" in 1982. If you missed the first video you can find it in our video library. Stay tuned for more readings as we continue to focus on the state of our planet and how we are all part of the solution.
For those of you that may not know, Wendell Berry delivered his "Think Little" speech for the first Earth Day celebration at the University of Kentucky on April 22, 1970.
"... if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. ... We will see that war and oppression and pollution are not separate issues but are aspects of the same issue. Amid the outcries for the liberation of this group or that, we will know that no person is free except in the freedom of other persons and that our only real freedom is to know and faithfully occupy our place - a much humbler place that we have been taught to think - in the order of creation."
- Wendell Berry, "Think Little". In Essays 1969-1990. Jack Shoemaker, Editor (p.143). The Library of America.
We hope you enjoy this reading from Mary.