permaculture

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French Gardening, 1909, by Thomas Smith | Tumbledown Farm
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"Let those who look upon the land as a mere source of profit compete among
themselves for the early appearance of their produce on the market. As to
those who will take to work on the land with the idea of bringing their own
personal contribution, how­ ever small, to the general progress of mankind,
they must turn their attention to the working out of the ways and means
which promise the greatest amount and variety of food-stuffs on the
smallest area with the least expenditure of necessary work. On these lines
lies true progress in agricul­ture. And this progress, in proportion as it
is achieved, will necessarily contribute to the development in civilized
mankind of the idea that the land belongs to all, and that nobody has the
right to appropriate more of it than he, with his family, can cultivate.

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
Forword to the book French Gardening, 1909, by Thomas Smith"