# Wendell Berry, Agrarian Poet and Conservationist, Dies at 92

Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer, poet, and environmental activist, has died at age 92.

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Wendell Berry, a Baptist layman, poet, and conservationist, died at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, on August 31 at the age of 92. [^1]

Berry was a lifelong member of the New Castle Baptist Church in Kentucky, where he was baptized, though he often attended worship at Port Royal Baptist Church. [^2]

Berry wrote more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and essays focused on agrarian life, community, and the environment. [^3]

An editor at Penguin approached the author to edit a collection of essays by Wendell Berry for a British audience, noting that Berry's work had not previously been published in book form in the U.K. [^4]

Berry opposed the modern monoculture and the extractive corporate economy, which he argued 'sell[s] the world to buy fire,' in favor of locally adapted economies based on local nature and work. [^5]

Berry's writing consistently addressed the decline of the human-scale world and the need to restore the human spirit against attacks from mountaintop removal coal mining and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's war on small farmers. [^6]

Wendell Berry never bought a computer or used a smartphone, refused to use air travel, and lived and worked in a small rural community to practice what he preached. [^7]

Berry described himself as a 'forest Christian' or 'marginal Christian' due to his uneasy distance from conservative institutional politics and dogmatism, despite his writings being deeply infused with biblical themes. [^8]

## What this stands on

1. Wendell Berry, a Baptist layman, poet, and conservationist, died at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, on August 31 at the age of 92. (Baptist News Global, News)
2. Berry was a lifelong member of the New Castle Baptist Church in Kentucky, where he was baptized, though he often attended worship at Port Royal Baptist Church. (Baptist News Global, News)
3. Berry wrote more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and essays focused on agrarian life, community, and the environment. (Baptist News Global, News)
4. An editor at Penguin approached the author to edit a collection of essays by Wendell Berry for a British audience, noting that Berry's work had not previously been published in book form in the U.K. (First Things, News)
5. Berry opposed the modern monoculture and the extractive corporate economy, which he argued 'sell[s] the world to buy fire,' in favor of locally adapted economies based on local nature and work. (First Things, News)
6. Berry's writing consistently addressed the decline of the human-scale world and the need to restore the human spirit against attacks from mountaintop removal coal mining and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's war on small farmers. (First Things, News)
7. Wendell Berry never bought a computer or used a smartphone, refused to use air travel, and lived and worked in a small rural community to practice what he preached. (First Things, News)
8. Berry described himself as a 'forest Christian' or 'marginal Christian' due to his uneasy distance from conservative institutional politics and dogmatism, despite his writings being deeply infused with biblical themes. (Baptist News Global, News)

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