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The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

Wendell Berry

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

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