[permaculture] Lincoln quote?

bmn at iglou.com bmn at iglou.com
Fri Apr 10 11:34:19 EDT 2009


Jay Woods wrote:

>>>I'm giving a presentation about relocalizaton of our food production at a
>>>sustainability fair next weekend and would like to quote what Lincoln
>>>said about the best thing being having a small plot of land and living
>>>from it. Something like that.    I hope someone here can share the
>>>wording with me.    If   you know the context of what speech or whatever
>>>it's from, that'd be great, too.
> 
> 
> Abraham Lincoln once said that the greatest art of the future would be making 
> the most of a small plot of land.

I'm always looking for quotes of this nature.  I use the following 
Thomas Jefferson quote on my fledgling (read always under construction) 
persimmon site (http://www.persimmonpudding.com/cultivation.html):

"I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position 
and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, 
and near a good market for the productions of the garden.  No occupation 
is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture 
comparable to that of the garden.  Such a variety of subjects, some one 
always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the 
success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through 
the year." --- Thomas Jefferson (August 20, 1811, to Charles W. Peale)


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