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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

Wendell Berry

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