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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.
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