The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. (Wendell Berry)

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Wendell Berry

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