Wendell Berry - poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer - celebrated his 80th birthday today. Truly a remarkable man.
“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”
- The Long-Legged House (1969)