Wendell Berry: 10 Hopes (Commencement Address)
In 1989, Wendell Berry delivered a Commencement Address at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine that included not Ten Commandments but ten hopes. They are as follows (I highlight the ones that I feel are particularly applicable to the arts): Beware the justice of Nature. Understand that there can be no successful human economy apart from Nature or in defiance of Nature. Understand that no amount of educ…