What Lessons Can We Learn from Wendell Berry?

What Lessons Can We Learn from Wendell Berry? by Renaud Beauchard at Brownstone Institute Wendell Berry died on August 31 at his farm in Port Royal, Kentucky. He was 92. For more than half a century he farmed with horses, wrote in pencil, adamantly refused to purchase a computer, and insisted that the health of a person cannot be separated from the health of a place. That faithfulness to a place is the part of his thought that the health freedom movement most needs now. Health, Berry never tired of saying, comes from the same root as whole, heal, and holy. To be healthy is to be whole. Health as wholeness is not a decree from the medical apparatus. It is membership to a community: belonging to other people and to a particular piece...

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