The World-Ending Fire

The Essential Wendell Berry

By: Wendell Berry

Narrated by: Nick Offerman

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. These are essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home.

With grace and conviction, Wendell Berry shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy - the natural world will not allow it.

Yet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope. We may be locked in an uneven struggle, but we can and must begin to treat our land, our neighbors, and ourselves with respect and care. As Berry urges, we must abandon arrogance and stand in awe.

©2018 Wendell Berry (P)2020 Recorded Books

Amazing in everyway

Great narrative
great voice
s great literature
make Wendell berry a saint, a hero for us commoners.

How have I never Mr. Berry??

Brilliant beautiful poetic writing, and more timely than ever. The perfectl recording madw all the more enjoyable by Nick Offerman.

The truth

This should be essential reading for all human beings. Our lives are dependent on more people understanding how we hang in the current imbalance.

Book-Read it-Change Your Life

truly a great and power full book. It should probably should not be the first book on you path, it should be midway on your journey. When you're looking for a turning point in you life.

Delightful

Wendell Berry is an excellent essayist who writes in a way that is beautiful and yet also makes you question your way of life and to desire to live better. It is a shame that he is not better known or wider read.

Amazing collection

Spanning decades of experience and remarkable depth of intellect these essays are and American treasure. A farmer philosopher for the ages.

Fantastic

No one could narrate Wendell Berry as well as Ron Swanson. Fantastic book. Fantastic performance.

Vital. Timely. Timeless.

Cannot recommend this highly enough. Relevant, piercing wisdom emanating from carefully observed lived experience. More important now than ever before. A revelation.

Nick Offerman is perfect.

Hope to change the area we live in

Beautifully sobering. We don’t know what we had til it’s gone. Makes me want to live on a farm with with my multigenerational family! We must return to the land.

A bracing, inspiring glimpse into a sane worldview

Much gratitude to Wendell Berry for all his work. Here you are invited to consider a careful, "care-full" perspective of a truly compassionate and wise person's thoughts, especially on our relationship with the matural world we are intimately a part of, and of the modern world's and mindset's broken relationship to it, and by extension to reality as a whole. Beautiful; much thanks to Paul Kingsnorth as well for organizing these essays and to Nick Offerman for providing an eminently appropriate voice, aligning his tones of bracing truth-telling with a gentle kindness and long-gestating thoughtfulness amd intelligence that reverberates with true care and love for what is most appropriately loved even when most critical of our society's many ills. Has certainly inspired me to take concrete steps toward responsible local food production as the very least I can do to help heal our world.