If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fu…

Wendell Berry
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. ✨ Wendell Berry (2015). The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, p.70, Counterpoint
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long. ✨ Wendell Berry (2015). The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture, p.70, Counterpoint

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