[Scpg] 2012 Jefferson Lecture with Wendell Berry/National Endowment of Humanities Honor

[Margie Bushman, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Teddy Macker teaching Creative Writing at UCSB (who incorporates 
sustainability and care of the environment in his teaching to 
students in his care),  shares this live-streamed talk by Wendell 
Berry.  It's long, maybe too long for some, and definitely a speech, 
but wonderful that this man who has inspired so many of us, is 
honored in this way.  He jokingly begins by saying it is rather 
courageous of the NEH to allow him to speak before actually seeing or 
reviewing his talk, he will speak his mind as usual....



2012 Jefferson Lecture with Wendell Berry




Watch the lecture, "It All Turns on Affection," online

http://www.neh.gov/news/2012-jefferson-lecture-wendell-berry

April 25, 2012 | By NEH Staff
Wendell Berry
National Endowment for the Humanities logo




Wendell E. Berry, noted poet, essayist, novelist, farmer, and 
conservationist, delivered the 2012 Jefferson Lecture in the 
Humanities on Monday, April 23, 2012 at the John F. Kennedy Center 
for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

The annual lecture, sponsored by the National Endowment for the 
Humanities (NEH) is the most prestigious honor the federal government 
bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

In his lecture, entitled 
<http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-lecture>"It 
All Turns on Affection," Berry lamented the increasing divergence of 
modern man from the environment and local communities. Invoking the 
words of his mentor, the writer Wallace Stegner, Berry observed that 
throughout history Americans have been divided into two kinds:  the 
"boomers" who "pillage and run," and the "stickers" who "settle, and 
love the life they have made and the place they have made it in."

Inspired by a passage from E.M. Forster's Howards End, Berry called 
for for a land use ethic that is shaped by a sense of "affection" for 
land and place. "And so," he said, "I am nominating economy for an 
equal standing among the arts and humanities. I mean, not economics, 
but economy, the making of the human household upon the earth: the 
arts of adapting kindly the many human households to the earth's many 
ecosystems and human 
neighborhoods." 
<http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-lecture>The 
full text of Wendell Berry's lecture is available here.

Described as a "21-st century Henry David Thoreau," Wendell Berry has 
spent his career meditating on our relationship and responsibility to 
the land and community. He is the author of more than forty books of 
poems, essays, short stories, and novels, many of which draw on the 
traditional rural values of Berry's native Kentucky. 
<http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2012-02-06>Read more about 
Wendell Berry and the Jefferson Lecture here.  Also available is 
a<http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-biography> 
biography of Wendell 
Berry,<http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-appreciation>an 
"appreciation" essay by New York 
Times<http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-appreciation> 
writer Mark Bittman, and 
<http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-interview>an 
interview of Wendell Berry by NEH Chairman Jim Leach.

This year, for the first time, NEH live streamed the Jefferson 
Lecture for those unable to attend. 
<http://events.tvworldwide.com/Events/NEH2012JeffersonLecture.aspx>Watch 
the archived video of the lecture






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