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Berry's reading and discussion at BAM "Don't try for Victory, try for clarity," Wendell Berry. Wendell Berry is a humbling man who loves his family, his friends and nature. In a conversation with scholars he can't help mention his wife several times and tell stories about back home in the farm in Kentucky.  He is also regarded by many great minds as one of the brightest men of letters of modern time, and has been called or "accused" (as he would say),  of being a modern-day Thoreau and the father of the sustainable food movement.  But to those "accusations" he replies that he's not a philosopher, because he doesn't have a strategy. "I didn't write to illuminate anyone," he says. "I was scared, and I wanted to do something." "Anything that I will ever have to say on the subject of agriculture can be little more than a continuation of talk begun in childhood with my father and with my late friend O