The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. I…

Wendell Berry
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The country where he lives is haunted by the ghost of an old forest. In the cleared fields where he gardens and pastures his horses it stood once, and will return. There will be a resurrection of the wild. Already it stands in wait at the pasture fences. ✨ Wendell Berry (2012). New Collected Poems, p.93, Counterpoint Press
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