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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Farmer
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
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Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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