“The Man Born to Farming” by Wendell Berry

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🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Wendell Berry reads his poem “The Man Born to Farming” Wendell Berry is a farmer, poet, and environmentalist who has published more than 40 books. He lives in Port Royal, Kentucky.

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0:00.0	The Man Born To Farming, written and read by Wendell Berry.
0:14.9	The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the
0:22.2	ground and sprout.
0:24.8	To him the soil is a divine drug.
0:28.6	He enters into death yearly and comes back rejoicing.
0:33.9	He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap and rise again in the corn.
0:40.4	His thought passes along the row ends like a mole.
0:45.2	What miraculous seed has he swallowed that the unending sentence of his love flows out
0:51.2	of his mouth like a vine clinging in the sunlight and like water descending in the dark.
0:58.5	The Man Born To Farming, written and read by Wendell Berry.

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