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title: "42 Land Quotes By Wendell Berry"
description: "42 Land quotes by Wendell Berry. Plus more from Wendell Berry and more Land sayings from other authors."
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> [The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-primary-motive-for-good-care-and-good-use-of-the-land-community/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-damages-of-our-present-agriculture-all-come-from-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/you-cannot-save-the-land-apart-from-the-people-or-the-people-apart/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-man-who-does-not-ask-to-much-become-the-promise-of-his-land-his/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/without-prosperous-local-economies-the-people-have-no-power-and-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/our-land-passes-in-and-out-of-our-bodies-just-as-our-bodies-pass-in/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-are-far-more-concerned-about-the-desecration-of-the-flag-than-we/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-soil-is-the-great-connector-of-our-lives-the-source-and/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/when-there-are-enough-people-on-the-land-to-use-it-but-not-enough-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/that-we-should-have-an-agriculture-based-as-much-on-petroleum-as-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-discussion-about-food-doesn-t-make-any-sense-without-discussion/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [“Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/now-when-he-walked-in-his-fields-and-pastures-and-woodlands-he-was/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/what-would-be-the-point-of-being-personally-whole-in-a-dismembered/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/industrial-agriculture-characteristically-proceeds-by-single/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/for-the-true-measure-of-agriculture-is-not-the-sophistication-of-its/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/our-politics-and-science-have-never-mastered-the-fact-that-people/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-cannot-know-the-whole-truth-which-belongs-to-god-alone-but-our-3/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/in-the-loss-of-skill-we-lose-stewardship-in-losing-stewardship-we/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-on-the-other-hand-conservationists-are-willing-to-insist-on-having/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/we-are-destroying-our-country-i-mean-our-country-itself-our-land-this/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/can-we-actually-suppose-that-we-are-wasting-polluting-and-making-ugly-2/)

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> [To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-think-better-to-think-like-the-best-humans-we-are-probably-going/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [“I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-should-understand-the-land-not-as-a-commodity-an-inert-fact-to-be/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/until-we-understand-what-the-land-is-we-are-at-odds-with-everything/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-husband-is-to-use-with-care-to-keep-to-save-to-make-last-to-2/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [“Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its patterns and cycles of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/over-a-long-time-the-coming-and-passing-of-several-generations-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-have-good-farming-or-good-land-use-of-any-kind-you-have-got-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-sustainable-agriculture-is-one-which-depletes-neither-the-people/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-we-can-t-afford-to-take-good-care-of-the-land-that-feeds-us-we-re/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/annual-plants-are-nature-s-emergency-medical-service-seeded-in-sounds/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-believe-in-thrift-as-i-believe-in-freedom-but-i-don-t-support-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-connections-between-people-and-land-are-dangerously/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/good-farmers-who-take-seriously-their-duties-as-stewards-of-creation/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/with-its-array-of-gadgets-and-machines-all-powered-by-energies-that/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-in-the-human-economy-a-squash-in-the-field-is-worth-more-than-a/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-husband-is-to-use-with-care-to-keep-to-save-to-make-last-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/during-the-last-17-years-i-have-been-working-at-the-restoration-of-a/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [“The work satisfied something deeper in him than his own desire. It was as if he went to his fields in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-work-satisfied-something-deeper-in-him-than-his-own-desire-it-was/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/community-then-is-an-indispensable-term-in-any-discussion-of-the-2/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/but-in-fact-as-knowledge-expands-globally-it-is-being-lost-locally/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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## Other authors on Land

## More by Wendell Berry

> [During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/during-the-last-17-years-i-have-been-working-at-the-restoration-of-a/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/like-the-water-of-a-deep-stream-love-is-always-too-much-we-did-not/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/to-husband-is-to-use-with-care-to-keep-to-save-to-make-last-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-two-families-sundered-in-the-ruin-of-a-friendship-were-united/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-living-can-t-quit-living-because-the-world-has-turned-terrible/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-knew-a-man-who-in-the-age-of-chain-saws-went-right-on-cutting-his/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-concept-of-country-homeland-dwelling-place-becomes-simplified-as/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/a-community-is-the-mental-and-spiritual-condition-of-knowing-that-the/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/that-we-can-prescribe-the-terms-of-our-own-success-that-we-can-live/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-mind-that-comes-to-rest-is-tended-in-ways-that-it-cannot-intend/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-mercy-of-the-world-is-time-time-does-not-stop-for-love-but-it/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/the-soil-is-the-great-connector-of-our-lives-the-source-and/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/i-dislike-the-thought-that-some-animal-has-been-made-miserable-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/laughter-is-immeasurable-be-joyful/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

> [These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/these-are-people-who-are-capable-of-devotion-public-devotion-to/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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                        "text": "What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?",
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                        "text": "“Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that understanding it is necessary, even now, to leave the regions of our conquest - the cleared fields, the towns and cities, the highways - and re-enter the woods. For only there can a man encounter the silence and the darkness of his own absence. Only in this silence and darkness can he recover the sense of the world's longevity, of its ability to thrive without him, of his inferiority to it and his dependence on it. Perhaps then, having heard that silence and seen that darkness, he will grow humble before the place and begin to take it in - to learn from it what it is. As its sounds come into his hearing, and its lights and colors come into his vision, and its odors come into his nostrils, then he may come into its presence as he never has before, and he will arrive in his place and will want to remain. His life will grow out of the ground like the other lives of the place, and take its place among them. He will be with them - neither ignorant of them, nor indifferent to them, nor against them - and so at last he will grow to be native-born. That is, he must reenter the silence and the darkness, and be born again. (pg. 27, \"A Native Hill\")”",
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                        "text": "“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.”",
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                        "text": "With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use.",
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                        "text": "To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry.",
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                        "text": "“The work satisfied something deeper in him than his own desire. It was as if he went to his fields in the spring, not just because he wanted to, but because his father and grandfather before him had gone because they wanted to - because, since the first seeds were planted by hand in the ground, his kinsmen had gone each spring to the fields. When he stepped into the first opening furrow of a new season he was not merely fulfilling an economic necessity; he was answering the summons of an immemorial kinship; he was shaping a passage by which an ancient vision might pass once again into the ground.”",
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                        "text": "Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.",
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