Wendell Berry

Person · Open Library

Born

5 August 1934

Works

280

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Film & TV

Acting · Henry County, Virginia, USA

Known for

• Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry — Self (voice)2016
• The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community — Self2013
• The Unforeseen — Self2007

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Kentucky

Active from

1934

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

491

Total plays

2,803

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research

   · 1985 · cited 35,644x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,688x

3. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,250x

4. Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes

   · 1984 · cited 7,688x

5. The Behavioral Consequences of Service Quality

   · 1996 · cited 7,534x

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Quotes

• “I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
• “Today, local economies are being destroyed by the "pluralistic," displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.”
• “Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm — which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of America farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.”
• “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”
• “The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining … to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare — warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.”
• “We need to confront honestly the issue of scale. Bigness has a charm and a drama that are seductive, especially to politicians and financiers; but bigness promotes greed, indifference, and damage, and often bigness is not necessary. You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.”

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