It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Wendell Berry

To Live and Love with a Dying World

To Live and Love with a Dying World

Jan 4, 2021-- "In the summer of 2019, the climate activist Tim DeChristopher sat down with Wendell Berry. Berry is a poet and activist, author of over forty books, and a celebrated advocate for localism, ecological health, and small-scale farming. DeChristopher, as Bidder 70, disrupted a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction in 2008 by outbidding oil companies for parcels around Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah. Imprisoned for twenty-one months for his actions, he has used his platform to spread the urgency of the climate crisis and the need for bold, confrontational action to create a just and healthy world." Orion magazine shares their powerful conversation here. (3778 reads)


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