Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroye…

Wendell Berry
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. ✨ Wendell Berry (2013). A Country of Marriage: Poems, p.16, Counterpoint Press
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. ✨ Wendell Berry (2013). A Country of Marriage: Poems, p.16, Counterpoint Press

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