This is the first episode of the Nature, Wilderness and Wildness series of the podcast.

Wendell Berry is an American poet, farmer, and environmental activist who has spent most of his life on a small farm in Kentucky.

Born in 1934, Berry has been writing for over six decades, exploring themes of agrarian life, community, and our relationship with the land. He's both a working farmer and a thinker about what it means to live well on this earth.

The New York Times has called him the "prophet of rural America."

"The Peace of Wild Things" was first published in Berry’s 1968 collection “Openings”, and has become one of his most beloved poems.  a quiet antidote to anxiety, and a reminder of where we might turn when the weight of the world becomes too much to bear.

Find out more about Wendell Berry’s work via The Berry Center here.

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