I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

This week on Morriers & Company, environmental legend and writer Wendell Berry leaves his Kentucky

farm to talk about a sensible but no compromise plan to St. Beaure.

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is, what's the right thing to do?

What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?

I've been talking for a long time about leadership from the bottom,

and I'm convinced perfectly that it's happening and that

leadership consists of people who simply see something that needs to be done and

they start doing it and showdown overdown. Thanks for joining us.

In this broadcast, you will meet an ever-vescent man who still believes we can make democracy

work.

Later, we'll talk about those people in Washington who refuse to let it work.

But first, Wendell Berry. A master

of the written word, he rarely appears on television. For one thing, when he's not writing,

he's farming, and that can keep a fellow busy from sunrise to sunset. But we met recently,

and after considerable persuasion, he said, okay, bring your cameras with you.

We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not.

The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do?

What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it.

For Wendell Berry, the defense of the earth is a mission that admits no compromise.

This quiet and modest man who lives and works far from the center of power on a farm in Kentucky where his family has lived for 200 years

has become an outspoken, even angry advocate

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