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Natural Gifts
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Join us for an hour of wisdom from one of the most highly respected of modern American writers and poets. Using words like "affection", "satisfaction", "care", and "joy", Berry calls for a re-evaluation of the basic values and practices of our lives. He illustrates his ideas with glimpses of his own life and those of his Kentucky farm neighbors, and describes a future where we can learn to find love, wisdom and meaning in the people, the places and the work of our own daily lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Profound and rich with insight. Simple
- By E. Faison on 07-21-18
By: Wendell Berry
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The World-Ending Fire
- The Essential Wendell Berry
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story5 out of 5 stars 31
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vital. Timely. Timeless.
- By David M. on 06-15-20
By: Wendell Berry
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The Unsettling of America
- Culture & Agriculture
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story5 out of 5 stars 61
Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land - from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's finally in Autio and narrated by Rob Swanson
- By Nate on 07-01-20
By: Wendell Berry
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Nathan Coulter
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 208
This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides listeners through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the listener to the simple humanity through which Nathan views the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, well read
- By Jenna Moon on 08-16-10
By: Wendell Berry
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Jayber Crow
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 825
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 727
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 725
Surrounded by his friends and neighbors, he is both participant and witness as the community attempts to transcend its own decline. And meanwhile Jayber learns the art of devotion and that a faithful love is its own reward.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book about heaven... "a good thing that came"
- By Nathan on 10-25-11
By: Wendell Berry
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That Distant Land
- 23 Short Stories
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 238
That Distant Land collects 23 stories, interlinked with each other and with the other published "Port William" novels. The stories, arranged in their fictional chronology (from 1888 to almost the present day), become one sustained work, a new novel that spans the entire life and time involved. The range of this book is extraordinary - it offers rest for the weary, hope for the beleaguered, and strength for everyone else.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Life-Changer
- By E. Pearson on 08-29-13
By: Wendell Berry
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Natural Gifts
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Join us for an hour of wisdom from one of the most highly respected of modern American writers and poets. Using words like "affection", "satisfaction", "care", and "joy", Berry calls for a re-evaluation of the basic values and practices of our lives. He illustrates his ideas with glimpses of his own life and those of his Kentucky farm neighbors, and describes a future where we can learn to find love, wisdom and meaning in the people, the places and the work of our own daily lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Profound and rich with insight. Simple
- By E. Faison on 07-21-18
By: Wendell Berry
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The World-Ending Fire
- The Essential Wendell Berry
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story5 out of 5 stars 31
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, Wendell Berry speaks out in these prescient essays, drawn from his 50-year campaign on behalf of American lands and communities. The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vital. Timely. Timeless.
- By David M. on 06-15-20
By: Wendell Berry
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The Unsettling of America
- Culture & Agriculture
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story5 out of 5 stars 61
Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land - from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's finally in Autio and narrated by Rob Swanson
- By Nate on 07-01-20
By: Wendell Berry
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Nathan Coulter
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 208
This, the first title in the Port William series, introduces the rural section of Kentucky with which novelist Wendell Berry has had a lifelong fascination. When young Nathan loses his grandfather, Berry guides listeners through the process of Nathan's grief, endearing the listener to the simple humanity through which Nathan views the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, well read
- By Jenna Moon on 08-16-10
By: Wendell Berry
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Jayber Crow
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 825
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 727
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 725
Surrounded by his friends and neighbors, he is both participant and witness as the community attempts to transcend its own decline. And meanwhile Jayber learns the art of devotion and that a faithful love is its own reward.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book about heaven... "a good thing that came"
- By Nathan on 10-25-11
By: Wendell Berry
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That Distant Land
- 23 Short Stories
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 238
That Distant Land collects 23 stories, interlinked with each other and with the other published "Port William" novels. The stories, arranged in their fictional chronology (from 1888 to almost the present day), become one sustained work, a new novel that spans the entire life and time involved. The range of this book is extraordinary - it offers rest for the weary, hope for the beleaguered, and strength for everyone else.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Life-Changer
- By E. Pearson on 08-29-13
By: Wendell Berry
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Hannah Coulter
- A Novel
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 323
"Ignorant boys killing each other," is just about all Nathan Coulter would tell his wife about the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. Life carried on for the community of Port William, Kentucky, as some boys returned from the war while the lives of others were mourned. In her seventies, Nathan's wife, Hannah, now has time to tell of the years since the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very sweet story!
- By Marie on 01-23-12
By: Wendell Berry
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A Place on Earth
- A Novel
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 184
The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh my, what a great book
- By Molly-o on 10-21-11
By: Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry and the Given Life
- By: Ragan Sutterfield, Bill Mckibben – foreword
- Narrated by: Ragan Sutterfield
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
For the past 50 years, Wendell Berry has been helping seekers chart a return to the practice of being creatures. Through his essays, poetry, and fiction, Berry has repeatedly drawn our attention to the ways in which our lives are gifts in a whole economy of gifts. Berry presents us with the sort of coherent vision for the lived moral and spiritual life that we need now. His work helps us remember our givenness and embrace our life as creatures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Narrator is extremely ........ frustrating
- By carly forward on 08-23-17
By: Ragan Sutterfield, and others
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Andy Catlett
- Early Travels: A Novel
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Nine years old, Andy embarks on the trip by bus, alone for the first time. He decides it will be a rite of passage and his first step into manhood. Sometimes a handful at home, Andy was a good boy when visiting his Grandparents' houses, and he looked forward to the little spoiling certain to come his way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable<br />
- By Anna on 08-12-17
By: Wendell Berry
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The Memory of Old Jack
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 141
Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values of Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Appreciation of Life
- By D. Farnham on 04-28-09
By: Wendell Berry
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A World Lost
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
It is the summer of 1944, and nine-year-old Andy Catlett is engrossed in the wide easy countryside near Port William, Kentucky. But sadness, loss, and mystery invade Andy's world on a hot July afternoon when his Uncle Andrew is murdered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful and soothing
- By sara on 11-22-18
By: Wendell Berry
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Remembering
- A Novel
- By: Wendell Berry
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57
It is 1976 and Andy Catlett, farmer and agricultural journalist, is walking the streets of San Francisco at dawn. In the eight months since losing his right hand to a corn-picking machine, he has also lost himself. Two thousand miles from his home in Kentucky, he begins to remember people, the land, and the comfort of knowing his place intimately. Andy's reveries evoke a membership governed by the principles of humanity and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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what an insightful book
- By Billy on 12-18-17
By: Wendell Berry
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Gumption
- Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
- By: Nick Offerman
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,887
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,529
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,511
The star of Parks and Recreation and author of the New York Times best seller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights 21 figures from our nation's history, from her inception to present day - Nick's personal pantheon of "great Americans".
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much lecturing
- By Amazon Customer on 01-14-17
By: Nick Offerman
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You Can Farm
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
- By: Joel Salatin
- Narrated by: Joel Salatin
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 181
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 161
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Story5 out of 5 stars 160
Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: Not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Joel’s classic, finally on Audible!
- By TheKonechewa on 06-20-20
By: Joel Salatin
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Return to the Sacred
- By: Father Bede Griffiths
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 56 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
This discussion with a remarkable Benedictine monk who founded an ashram in South India is a beautiful, stirring exploration of human spirituality. In a rare synthesis of Christian, Hindu, and modern scientific thought, the late Father Bede discusses the infusing of gross matter and daily life with spirit, the finding of God "in the divine darkness beyond word and thought," technology and simple living, Black Madonnas, mysticism, and monastic life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and enlightening
- By Amazon Customer on 06-12-15
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Restoration Agriculture
- Real-World Permaculture for Farmers
- By: Mark Shepard
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 112
The restoration agriculture system described in this award-winning book works! It is possible for humans to produce staple foods using perennial agricultural ecosystems that actually improve the quality of the environment. This can be done on a backyard, farm, or ranch scale and is needed right now - on a global scale. Restoration Agriculture explains how we can have all of the benefits of natural, perennial ecosystems and create agricultural systems that imitate nature in form and function while still providing for our food, building, fuel, and many other needs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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brilliant eye opening perspective on agriculture!
- By Adam on 12-16-19
By: Mark Shepard
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Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment
- Third Edition
- By: Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
- Narrated by: Paul W. Griffiths
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger problem, he warns, is our mismanagement of resources. Livestock grazing is not the problem; it's how we graze livestock. If we don't change the way we approach land management, irreparable harm from climate change could continue long after we replace fossil fuels.
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4 out of 5 stars
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this wonderful knowledge needs mastered.
- By Kyle Thomas on 07-23-19
By: Jody Butterfield, and others
Publisher's Summary
Wendell Berry is the author of many books including Standing By Words (North Point Press 1983), The Gift of Good Land (North Point Press 1981), Collected Poems: 1957-1982 (North Point Press 1985), Nathan Coulter (North Point Press 1985), What People Are For ( 1991), The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (Shoemaker & Hoard 2003), and The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays (Shoemaker & Hoard 2006).
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- Isaac Whiting
- 06-11-12
Old Interview without the usual Berry inspiration
If you’ve listened to books by Wendell Berry before, how does this one compare?
This interview is from the 80s and just doesn't have much to it. Berry's work usually has deep insights and perspectives I have never considered before. This interview does not.
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- jdk
- 03-14-17
An introduction to the thinking of Wendell Berry
This brief interview adequately acquaints listeners with the thinking of Wendell Berry. A good starting point for his eclectic practical philosophy.
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- William
- 03-02-18
Agriculture losing its soil and its way
Derived from a radio interview, the piece starts disconcertingly with a long piece of American country music. After this overlong prelude we get down to business. Wendell Berry issue not a slick word-spinner, but is quite the antithesis of facile gilded-tongued content-free politicians. His comments come haltingly at times, and he really only hits pace towards the end of the recording when talking about the haemorrhage of people from America's small farms since the 1940s and why this is a disaster. His answers are measured, thoughtful and honest. This man has something to say which is very much worth listening to.