Blog Watch: Quoting Wendell Berry at the Farmers' Market

Then he asked me if I had ever heard of Wendell Berry.

Wendell Berry? The Kentucky farmer/poet? Yes, I said I had heard of him. I was a fan of much of his work.

“Wow,” the young man said. “You’re the first person I’ve met who knows of Wendell Berry. Do you recognize this?” And looking off to one side he quoted Berry. He stumbled only once.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.

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