Wendell Berry quote: Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be ...

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

~ Wendell Berry ~

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