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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] The Man Born to Farming
  • Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:00:42 -0600


The Man Born to Farming

The grower of the trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands
reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He
enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light
lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn. His thought passes
along the row ends like a mole. What miraculous seed has he swallowed that
the unending sentence of his love flows out of his mouth like a vine
clinging in the sunlight, and like water descending into the dark?

Wendell Berry








  • [Livingontheland] The Man Born to Farming, Tradingpost, 04/09/2008

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