Wendell Berry asked: What do we owe to the place that sustains us?

By: Keith L. Runyon

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: September 2, 2026

Words: 643

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Some Kentuckians become so rooted in this place that it is difficult to think of one without the other. Wendell Berry was such a Kentuckian. He died Monday at age 92 at his beloved Lane’s Landing Farm in Port Royal, Ky.

Poet, novelist, essayist, teacher, farmer, conservationist, and dissenter, he spent a lifetime asking: What do we owe to the place that sustains us?

It is an old question in …

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