It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of t…

Wendell Berry
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It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.' ✨ Wendell Berry (2015). The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, p.71, Counterpoint
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