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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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