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"Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man."
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"Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing."
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"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years."
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"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."
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"I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce."
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"Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now."
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"Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us."
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"Oats n.s. A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people."
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"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."
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"So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out."
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"One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen."
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"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."
Beginning
"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."
People
"The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind."
Ability
"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."
History
"The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity."
Geology
"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."
Geography
"America is the last great goal of these migrations."
Goal
"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."
Animals
"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."
Diversity
"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly."
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