- Mary Berry: It's the lack of imagination that my father talks about. It's not really looking at what's happening. It's not really counting the cost. It's some kind of dream or ideal that is false. It serves an economy that is false. And it works against nature so it's not in any way sustainable and it's made slaves out of a lot of people.
- Wendell Berry: We all come from divorce, now. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart, and you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things. That's the way the work has to go.
- Steve Smith: In my first year of the CSA one of my customers asked me if I had heard of Wendell Berry. I said, "No of course not." And they gave me a book called "The Unsettling of America". It was like "Oh my God" someone has written the story of my people, my experience. And that was different, to have it put into words, that were really honest. And also, they captured the emotion of it, the feeling, the way we felt about it. It was respectful of it. We weren't used to being respected."
- [laughs]
- Steve Smith: "That was different."
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By what name was Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (2016) officially released in Canada in English?
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