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I'm beginning to read a collection of essays on new agrarianism and came across this quote:

Farming's essence is true to soil. Proper farming might be said to make concrete what is latent in humanity's dependence upon the earth, for the act of good farming both releases and replenishes the provisions for human sustenance. Farming is the activity that locates the human species most surely in the planetary ecosystem of the earth. It is on farming that we depend for food, and in farming that what we take from the earth is returned to it.

-Paul B. Thompson (_The New Agrarianism: land, culture, and community life_)