Eco-Philosophy, Deep Ecology

The second volume of the Library of America's definitive two-volume selection of the nonfiction writings of our greatest living advocate for sustainable culture.

Since the Second World War ended, America has performed like a gyroscope losing its balance, wobbling this way and that, unable to settle into itself and its own great promise. Wendell Berry has been a voice for that promise, a voice for reason and hope and urgent concern.

When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture—our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement—Wendell Berry decided to take on the obligation of thinking again about the problems that have engaged him throughout his long career.

Kentucky farmer, writer and poet Wendell Berry here offers essays which propose, and earnestly hope, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin the restoration that might spread over