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If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
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Wendell Erdman Berry
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Agriculture

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